<div dir="ltr">If you can't get enough support to filter or block offenders, then just ignore them. I've been a lurker on this list, occasionally chiming in when I found it helpful, for over 3 years now -- As such, I've read your concern a few times, but I consider the reactions to his posts to be a much bigger issue than his posts, as off topic as they are. I wouldn't have said anything otherwise, but I'm just sick of reading the back and forth each time it happens.<br><br>Solution: Filter and block offenders, or just ignore them.<br><br>You said it yourself -- "this never ends" -- so, clearly what the list has tried so far isn't working.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:19 PM Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryan.coleman@cwis.biz">ryan.coleman@cwis.biz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">With all due respect to you and the sanity of the list:<div><br></div><div>This never ends. Ever. Once a quarter (now, it used to be daily or weekly) he’d make a post like that.</div><div>We want, nay we need, it to end.</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Andrew Dahl <<a href="mailto:droidjd@gmail.com" target="_blank">droidjd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Ask yourself one question before hitting send: "Does this add anything to the discussion?" -- No? Don't hit send. If someone else fails to do so, just ignore them or be polite about it.<br><br>Problem solved without spamming everyone on the list and without wasting everyone's time reading such drivel. Every time someone says something off topic (in this instance, Brian), there's someone that doesn't know how to just ignore it or be polite about it (in this instance, Ryan and Clug). Just keep this trite BS off the list. When you get so off topic or, even worse, make it personal, you're doing way more harm than good to this community. If you really want to start a pissing contest and hurt feelings, reply privately and keep everyone else out of it.<br><br>Seriously sick of reading these whiny personal attacks.<br>-Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM Clug <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Ryan Coleman wrote:<br>
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>> Oh for goodness sake.<br>
> This is Brian Wood, after all.<br>
> He’d be afraid of coming into my home because I don’t believe in things he believes in.<br>
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I don't like taking chances, so just in case I am hereby declaring my<br>
house a gun-free zone.<br>
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