From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T05:31:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ilias is Crazy -- a plea

Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> Please remove me from your "Ilias is Crazy" email list campaign.

This is not a list. It's a private mail you received and forwarded to a
public mailing list, without asking for the author's permission first.
This is considered very rude, according to every netiquette I know. If
you don't want to receive emails from Ryan just use your email filter,
instead of bothering every reader of ruby-talk with your misguided
"revenge".

>    I did not sign up to ruby-talk to be bombarded with "political
> causes". Please respect the reply-to headers.  All communications in
> regards to this topic will be redirected to ruby-talk until the rude
> practice of sending spam form e-mail ceases.

Why did you subscribe to the list? To read postings from regulars and
experienced Ruby hackers like Ryan? If this is the case, you should stop
feeding the trolls, like you were advised in his email. Or will you only
be satisfied, if regulars like Ryan start to unsubscribe from ruby-talk,
because the signal-noise ratio gets too low and the email volume to high
for them to read through it?

The problems with trolls aren't the trolls themselves, but people like
you, that reply to them and feed their madness and their sadism. If you
really want to destroy this mailing list, you should continue with your
behaviour.

-- 
Florian Frank