removing toxic emailers

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 19:54, Alexandre Oliva via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> That you claim some are entitled to share their opinions, because
> they've contributed code (and you agree with them), and that others are
> not because they haven't (and you disagree with them), but you do not
> disqualify those who have not contributed code (but you agree with them)
> and dismiss those who have (that you disagree with), you not only
> confirm that the issue really is about agreement/disagreement, but
> attempt to frame the intolerance to dissenting ideas as a chaste system.

Utter nonsense, Alex. I think it's clear I don't agree with most of
your posts on this list in the past month, but it would be silly to
suggest that you should not be allowed to post here, given your track
record. Dave didn't say who he thinks should or shouldn't be
moderated, so why do you think he said that those he agrees with are
welcome to share their opinion? He said "those who have never
contributed to GCC but persist in emailing the list" so why do you
infer he only means those he disagrees with? Are you projecting maybe?

To me a simple rule makes sense (and is what is used on another list
that I am the moderator for, with not a single complain about my
moderation in many years): every new subscriber has their "moderated"
flag set by default. When a moderator approves their post, they have
the option of clearing the "moderated" flag, if it's clear they are
going to contribute usefully. That flag can be set again if somebody
is disruptive or refuses to follow the list policies and stay on
topic.


> Again, not conducive of the tolerant and welcoming atmosphere I'd like
> us to pursue.

Neither is making false claims about Dave's claims or his motives for
moderation. Stop it.


>
> I recall a scene from the original Cosmos TV series, by Carl Sagan, in
> which he's set within an out-of-scale model of the solar system, walking
> about the planets and talking about some batshit crazy theory by some
> scientist about how a planet-sized body had some day been ejected from
> Jupiter and floated about the solar system causing, among other effects,
> the Earth to stop spinning and then start spinning again, as described
> in some religious book.

Sounds like Velikovsky. Less ridiculous than some of the ideas posted
to this list recently.