Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[marc]

Loïc Martin said:

> Threads like "The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go
> bankrupt?" would fit Sounder perfectly, and locking them on ubuntu-users
> would hardly prevent anyone to get the support they're looking for.
> 
> We get a huge amount of mails just including those off-topic and
> offensive subjects, I'd welcome anything done to keep the list on topic
> and preserve its usefulness.

Leave it to the subscribers to hit 'ignore thread', or whatever their 
chosen reader provides.

> As for changing one character to a subject, isn't that asking to be
> banned?

It doesn't happen now, as there's no need, but change will invoke this 
type of behaviour.

You have to consider the behaviours that will be invoked by change, 
usually more so than immediate effect of the change itself.

You'll never be able to control all the people all the time, and I 
certainly think that trying to encourage this approach on the ubuntu 
lists is, well, distasteful.

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Best,
Marc