Quoting Brent Wallis (brent.wallis@gmail.com): [Talking to Russell, about a week ago]
..Perhaps, this is not the place to take an online go at someone that offends your personal politics.
I just now double-checked the remit of this mailing list, in case I misunderstood it. The listinfo page describes it as 'General chat list for LUV members'. Beyond that, the Rules and Guidelines section of the Mailing Lists page elaborates a bit: 7. luv-talk has no topic There are no set posting guidelines for luv-talk. Members are expected to remain polite and to avoid using the list for private discussions, or replies which are not of interest to the list in general. I suspect that the CTTE established it as a handy ghetto for offtopic chatter, a clever organisational ploy often used by technical groups, indeed one that I've implemented myself elsewhere, and that I heartily applaud (if that was the intention). The listadmins' action, a few years back, to reconfigure luv-talk's Web archives as 'private' (accessible only to subscribed parties) rather than 'public' after a mildly embarrassing luv-talk contretemps got publicised by Sam Varghese, is consistent with my 'ghetto' theory. I suspect that the CTTE and the membership at large have no problem with Russell being contentious as long as he's civil and posts what he reasonably believes to have some public interest. -- Cheers, HULK LIKE OXFORD COMMA VERY MUCH. HULK WANT TO DATE, Rick Moen BUT OXFORD COMMA GO OUT ONLY IN GROUPS OF THREE OR MORE. rick@linuxmafia.com -- @EditorHulk McQ! (4x80)