I'm in agreement with Sean. 

I'm on this list for the sole purpose of relevant discussion about DNS - 
something that keeps my business together. Whilst I don't mind seeing plenty 
of related posts, I'm seeing a huge amount of rubbish. Add that to similar 
problems on a few other mailing lists, and I seem to be deleting an awful lot 
of trash. I don't post on mailing lists very often, I don't need to, but damn 
it, this is way, way, way past a joke.

The only useful Brad Norrish related posts on this list are when we're told 
about some other *business venture* that is concerning our customers.

Other than that, I really don't think we need to be discussing him, or 
receiving any posts not directly relevant to DNS.

So, here's a theory. If everyone stops replying to, and quoting from Brads 
posts, we'll be ignoring him. If we ignore him long enough, he'll shut up. 
And if that doesn't work, then perhaps we should look at ignoring everyone 
who insists on making things worse by arguing with him as well..... 
At least this way, we wouldn't be banning him... 

Brad, and a few other people on this list seem to be Trolls. For those who 
don't remember the rules we used to use on usenet... Don't feed the trolls.

Let's get this list back on track people...... 

Cheers,
David 
(climbing back in hole....)


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:14 pm, sean.finn wrote:
> This is a public plea to clean up this list. It has turned into a cess
> pool again.
>
> chmod 444 ./offending_party_ability_to_participate_in_this_list
>
> (I.E. Read only).
>
> Please ask yourself before posting if your post is either
> a) constructive, or
> b) humourous(?).
> If it is negative, please do not post.
> If it is inflamatory, please do not post.
>
> Should we rename the list the DNS-SH!T-SLINGING-LIST ? or is it to be
> kept the DNS-DISCUSSION-LIST.
>
> I am interested in
> a) DNS Discussion for positive gain.
> b) Discussion about Domain Names, Both Australian And Global, as it is
> my assumption as this list is populated mainly By Australians /
> Aus-Pacific parties, and .au and other domains (may) impact on this
> region differnetly than other parts of the world. (i.e. a geographic
> interest group)
> c) Technical Discussion about policy / regulation.
> d) Being alerted of breaches of policy, companies involved, and
> discussion about this.
> e) All of the above to be conducted in a couteous manner parallel with
> the privilege of your position in the domain industry.
> F) Regular News articles. (Good value).
> g) other related happenings in the industry (Yes, in fact, the mailed
> out notices are part of this, and i consider good value, so that when
> our clients ring, we can tell them to read closely)
>
> Do I care if someone is going to whoop skeeve's wifes shopping budget to
> caress your ego / "emotional damages" or whatever, heck no, unless that
> party has registered imgunnawhoopskeeve.com.au and its doesn't fit into
> .au policy.
>
> Cheers
> Sean Finn
> www.ozservers.com.au
>