Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Rashkae]

Barry Smith wrote:

> I am the type of person who will post from another workstation because
> I have hosed up menu.lst , and can't figure out how to get back to
> Ubuntu or Windows, and my original post may use EVERY word on Carlin's
> list of words that can't be said on TV.
> 
> These words should be listed somewhere (in ?CoC?), and "substring"
> filtering should be used.  "head" is not on the list, but the
> non-hyphenated word before "head" may be on the list.
> 

Generally speaking, the occasional, shall we say, strong language that
makes it to the list is almost never an issue with the list regulars, so
long as the post has a valid point and the abuse is not hurled at a
specific person (or developers,, it's never a good idea to ask for help
while calling the devs names.)

There are of course, exceptions, but since these people generally only
troll the list as self appointed etiquette police while almost never
providing content of value, they've long been on my plonk list.