what *is* the approval process?

[Joe Schaefer]

"Alexander Terekhov" <alexander.terekhov at gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/3/07, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Dalibor Topic (robilad at kaffe.org):
>>
>> > In light or Mr. Terekhov turning this list into gnu.misc.discuss
>> > [1] over the past couple of days, and flooding it the way he did
>> > with debian-legal, when he did his performance act there a little
>> > while ago, I'd be interested to know: 
>> >
>> >  what it would take to try one more time, with a vengeance?
>>
>> Just as a brief reminder:  Killfiles work, too.
>
> To those offended and with little killfiling skills: relax, I'm mostly
> finished now.

Killfiling is something I normally associate with Usenet, because the
technology simply doesn't allow for an efficient method of enforcing
community standards.  With mailing lists, especially ezmlm, that simply
isn't the case.

I don't exactly understand why, other than perhaps the liberterian
views of the people who operate license-discuss@, topicality cannot
be enforced by this list's operators.  Clearly the people who were
doing all the talking in August cannot seem to control themselves,
there's no indication that they will do so in September, and we've
long left any reasonable discussion of the OSI compliance of
any of the licenses put forth for review in August.

-- 
Joe Schaefer