Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:44:53 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: When they came for Brett Message-ID: <19990912144453.C227@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <199909120827.SAA20008@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:27:59PM %2B1000 References: <19990912001417.A13908@wcug.wwu.edu> <199909120827.SAA20008@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:27:59PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >The problem is that he continually attacks Jordan and various other >contributors and challenges them to respond to his posts. As far as I >can tell, this has done nothing except waste the time of active project >supporters and contributors. I support free speech and such, but if Brett >kept a bit quieter more useful work would get done. I've been successfully >ignoring Brett for ages now, but every time he drags Jordan into another >pointless argument, I grind my teeth. I, too, support free speech. I used to read Brett's messages, even discuss things with him. Now I delete them without reading. After all, you have read one of his messages, you have read them all. I am opposed to banning Brett from our mail lists, as that would set a dangerous precedent. Otherwise, the day might come I'd be saying: "When they came for Brett, I did not protest because he was a troll..... When they came for me, there was no one left to protest." Besides, it is my suspicion, all the people who keep rebutting Brett, *want* to discuss things with him (or perhaps just hope to cause him a heart attack). Everyone knows that he will respond to every single message to him, so if they really did not want to see his messages, they would ignore him, or even filter him out. Cheers, Adam -- When two do the same, it's not the same -- Slovak proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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