[Gocamino] arguments on public mailing lists

[David Hough on gocamino]

It would be great if every member of every mailing list would observe a
rule like

1) don't post unpleasant messages

but unpleasantness is in the eyes of the recipient, not the sender, and
some people don't know or don't care what some recipients might find
unpleasant.     Since the only behavior one can modify is one's own,
it would be great if every member of every mailing list would observe a
second-best rule like

2) don't respond to unpleasant messages

This is easier because you know what you consider unpleasant.   And
everybody would do us a favor by 

3) never engage in a heated or personal argument in a public forum.
It doesn't matter which one of you is right.    What matters is the
rest of the audience - which doesn't want to read it and
wish the two of you would take it off-line.

There's nothing new about any of this.    The same issues have come up in
every unmoderated mailing list on every topic, sooner or later, since
the 1980's.

Another thing that you might be able to do, 
depending on the email reading software
you have, is exclude mail with certain keywords or from certain senders.

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