Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:06:37 -0400 Received: from h-64-105-137-32.SNVACAID.covad.net ([64.105.137.32]:43174 "EHLO freya.yggdrasil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:06:35 -0400 From: "Adam J. Richter" Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:12:27 -0700 Message-Id: <200210212212.PAA01379@adam.yggdrasil.com> To: hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: Listmaster request: Blacklist rms@gnu.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3492 Lines: 71 >> = Adam Richter > = Christoph Hellwig >> If I have searched marc.theaimslist.com correctly, Stallman has made >> four of the 74 posts in the "Bitkeeper outrage{,m}, old and new" >> thread, and they've been been pretty short and concise. >Sorry, Adam - if it was just that one thread I couldn;t care less, but >please check your inboxes for posts from Richard to lkml that actually >were technical instead of forcing his questionable ideas of "freedom" >to the linux devlopers. On marc.theaimslist.com, the last posting before the four that I find by searching for "Richard Stallman" in the author search back on June 9th. If we were to apply as stringent a standard of germainness, many other people would fail it long before Richard Stallman. Even in the very thread with which you request this filtering, you saw fit to post a response soley to participate in joking with someone about Richard Stallman running for office. By the way, I chanced on a purely technical lkml article from Richard on September 5, 2000, about suspending notebook computers at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96819134426068&w=2, so even if we were to accept your standard of "on topic", your statement that Richard has "so far posted only offtopic to this list, and that's what pisses me off" would still apparently be incorrect. I think the standard for filtering that you advocate at this point is too one-sided and arbitrary. It will do more to undermine than to support the various reasons that people develop Linux. Side note: >> In the real world, censorship generally does not come about by >> some plot that the Dr. Doom and his evil henchmen developed in their >> headquarters embedded into the side of a volcano. It comes about by >> people well intentioned people making bad trade-offs. >I explained it a few times, but people still don't want to get it. >This is fsckin' not about censorship but about banning people who >aren't capable by themselves to find the appropinquate forum. No one >tries to hinder him posting his opinion to gnu-ethics, linuxtoday (*) >or slashdot. I just think such a request is the last thing we can do >about people ignoring the technical list spirit again and again. At the risk of being off topic, especially by your standards, you are proving my point. In the real world, censorship takes hold for reasons that are "not about censorship", for reasons as noble as you think yours are, by people as nice and well intentioned as you might be. It is also usually incremental (e.g., you can advocate a change in the politburo's policies in theoretical academic journals about public policy, but broadcasting such things on the news is disruptive to the country and not within the purpose of a proper news program). When people implement censorship, they often claim that what they're doing isn't censorship, that it's the last thing they can do about people ignoring the forum's spirit again and again, etc. Adam J. Richter __ ______________ 575 Oroville Road adam@yggdrasil.com \ / Milpitas, California 95035 +1 408 309-6081 | g g d r a s i l United States of America "Free Software For The Rest Of Us." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/