Re: moderation, please

[Jesse Gibbons]

On Sun, 2019-10-13 at 00:04 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:
> > this list is to discuss the _development_ of GNU Guix, Shepherd, and
> > Guix System.
> > 
> > It is not a general discussion list for everything else.
> > 
> > While we usually get by fine without imposing moderation restrictions, I
> > don't see how any of the recent message floods have been ontopic to this
> > list
> 
> Yes, indeed, though I cannot imagine, how an offtopic limited to few
> threads can hurt any person minimally capable of using a MUA.
> 
> > (other than the original announcement of the blog post
> 
> Indeed?
> 
> > If it isn't already on moderation for some people, it would be very kind
> > to do so as numerous active people asked for this (and the people in
> > question are on record not willing to stop the messages).
> 
> Anyway, ‘to stop’ is the most unconstructive proposal, it never works.  If
> you can name a better mailing list, please do so.  E. g., @address@hidden
> believes for some reason, than otherwise pretty dead gnu-system-
> address@hidden is not suitable for discussion of the future of GNU system
> in the light of recent events either.

Try moving it to irc or matrix. There should already be plenty of rooms
related to the future of the GNU project on freenode, or you could start
something new.

When all 50+ new messages in this list from the past hour are off-topic, it
is too much.