Well to an extent I agree with your "Motivation" point. Most of the time we get for LinkedIn, as far as I remember more than 10 so far, so lets block any requests from mem...@linkedin.com.
2011/6/1 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <r...@linux-delhi.org> > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: > > I support this, a policy can be put in place by the admins over this > > DL. Putting the name in a webpage (like a box of shame) also kind of > > discourages people to post in and join in. > > How exactly does putting your name on a page if you insist on giving > your password away to an untrusted site prevent you from joining and > participating in a technical mailing list? The two are completely > unrelated. > > Site/address blacklists don't work, since there are so many sites > nowadays that ask you for your password it's impossible to keep track of > them. On the other hand, if someone's volunteering to make such a > comprehensive blacklist AND maintain it on a regular basis, I'm sure the > list admin(s) can be persuaded to use those. > > The Wiki page is not an official mailing list policy or an official > ILUGD initiative. It's a user initiative, and updated by users. If > your name is on that page and you don't want it there, all you need to > do is sign up on the Wiki (it's free and automatic), edit the page and > delete your name from there -- not exactly rocket science. > > Finally, I'd be glad if someone took on the task of educating every > Internet user on how foolish and insecure it is to give your password > away to any site that asks for it. Until that is done, however, shame > works as an excellent motivation to learn really fast. Since that Wiki > page was started, the number of offences on this mailing list has gone > down by 64.729% (create your own statistics if you don't like mine :) > > Regards, > > -- Raj > -- > Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Amar Akshat Wells Fargo "Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25." _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
