I get that our
community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I
think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of
discouraging people from acting this way.
I've long advocated for adopting toolserver-l's mailing list etiquette
guideline on all Wikimedia mailing lists. It's available here:
<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette>.
That guideline basically just says don't top post. It doesn't really
address aggressive, offensive or hostile behavior, which is something
we actually have a problem with. We have this problem on basically all
of our lists, so I'm not saying it's limited to this one.
- Ryan