Aside from your the preposterous nature of your proposition (that clr members should police so-called trolls in clpm), you seem not to understand the nature of clr itself. I don't read clr; I read ruby-talk -- a mailing list hosted by ruby-lang.org. This is bidirectionally mirrored with clr. So when your post about "The Ruby troll" came in, it was completely new to me and unrelated to anything else -- and absolutely no indication that your message had originated on clpm and was unceremoniously crossposted to clr (and therefore ruby-talk). Since I don't watch newsgroups anymore (they lost their utility for me some years ago), there's nothing I could have said or done about this in any case. Frankly, I was wondering who this twit talking about a "Ruby troll" (that is, *you*) was. Now that I understand, I'm still baffled why you think it's our responsibility to police clpm when you can't even apparently stay in clpm and must cross-post to ruby-talk with no indication of where you've posted from. Perhaps you should introduce yourself to the killfile features of your newsgroup reader. I'm a bit surprised if you're what represents clpm these days as I remember Perl developers being a bit more open-minded and friendly back when I still used Perl. (I suspect that you're not completely representative.)