Re: Admin: Why So MAny Nasty Debates (Was: gone way off topic)

Hi inthaneelf et al,
Now this is an odd thread. I mean, I read the initial post with interest and a couple of the replies. But now I notice this has turned into yet another heated debate. I even know people who've left this excellent list because of them cropping up so frequently. Ways to lesson the likelyhood of such events would be to concentrate on the topic or code, not the person or writing style, moderating stricter and waiting for an hour, and re-reading, before posting a potentially insulting mail. I sincerely hope we could make this list even better than it is now. Also, I cannot stress enough the importance of good subjecft lines. Personally, I nearly always take the time to think, does this subject shortly and accurately portrai what I'm discussing right now, and if not, I'll change it. I change subjects more than most people I do know, since I mentally filter on a per subject bases.
Which reminds me, why on Earth are hot debates and issues that center on persons or AT technology, rather than say programming matters, so common in here? This is in general a very newbie friendly list with virtually no trolls and it is quite, perhaps a bit too to my taste, liberal in terms of what's on topic. Contrast this to comp.lang.perl.misc, or most other tech groups having a majority of newbie or write code for me type posts, and you get a lot of short and cryptic, snide or otherwise just plain annoying or impatiant replies. This is not the case at all, here.
I haven't been here long yet there have been several quite heated threads here. When I was here the last time about four years back, the situation was much the same. I don't really mind, I mostly skip threads with uninteresting titles or those I've lost interest in, and I prefer to do all of my filtering manually apart from spam. I don't expect everyone else to do that, but personally I normally post into groups for the sighted when I need general programming help, and try to restrict my new posts to stuff that's somehow specific to blind programming. The only exception are infrequent posts for which alone subscribing to another mailing list would be too much of a hassle. 

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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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inthaneelf wrote:

one and one reason only, I don't like giving someone the ability to
talk about me "behind my back" , but I may just do that here soon,

and this is all that I will say on this subject line to end all this,
smile, thanks for your suggestion though, I appreciate it
inthane
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