On 18 May 2014 21:02, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:

What is considered to be "name calling"?

Don't think there was any name calling in this thread, however it looked like the quality of the discussion in this thread was deteriorating.

In another thread, the subject line, Christopher Pyne was compared with a human male body part. At least that is how I interpreted it. Could also be a comparison with Dick Smith (the person or franchise?) which also wasn't appropriate.

I think that the problem here is that discussions aren't just about the stated
topic. In recent times we've had people use the Linux Australia and Free
Software Melbourne lists to persue their political aims from this list.

Nothing wrong with debating politics here.

Some of the stuff said here might be considered ok if said in private between people who know each other, however could easily be misinterpreted, here, on a public forum. e.g. phrases like "Why are you even reading it?", "That applies to you too.", "Good to see you acknowledge your extremism" could easily be misinterpreted. (* if I quoted you please don't feel need to defend or justify what you said - there is no need.)

Regarding your plans to unsubscribe, like any other mailing list if the
discussion doesn't interest you then unsubscribing is the correct thing to do.

Yes. Exactly. If my message was read as a threat of some sort, that was purely unintentional.

If you think that there is scope for another mailing list with different
content then propose it on luv-meta, the list server can run thousands of
lists and there's no great difficulty in splitting this list into several
lists if there is the demand for it.

Maybe that would be a good idea, I know people who have subscribed because of the discussions here, yet some of the discussions would probably be of interest.

Trying to find the scope of the other mailing list would be the difficulty here though, and needs to be done carefully, otherwise we could end up with 2+ problematic mailings lists, instead of just 1.

Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>