Re: This group is dead. Time to put it out of its misery?

On 12/22/10 6:51 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 12/21/10 23:24, Andy wrote:
> 
>> there is just no one seems to have any  any more sad isn't it.
> 
> Not much point posting to a wishlist when your wishes will probably be 
> ignored and unacknowledged.
> 

There is an individual who asserts that he has the right to moderate
mozilla.support.thunderbird despite the fact that bug #598060 says that
the various mozilla.support.* newsgroups are not moderated.  That
individual claims that any message in mozilla.support.thunderbird
requesting a new feature is off-topic and belongs instead here in
mozilla.wishlist.

To enforce his position, that individual posts replies with the
Followup-to field pointing to his E-mail address -- not to another
newsgroup -- thus blocking further replies in the affected thread (or at
least in the affected sub-thread).  Contrary to RFC 1855, such followups
are not noted in the body of his reply messages.

I understand that, on occasion, he even deletes messages from the
newsgroup or blacklists certain participants.  I have not yet personally
experienced these latter forms of moderation.

In the end, that moderator's actions might serve to revive
mozilla.wishlist for users, even if it remains ignored by developers and
thus a black hole for suggestions.

-- 

David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages
posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent
because of spam from that source.