Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Items to ponder: 1. Anyone can sue anyone any time they desire for anything, but, a judge can throw it out and a lawyer will likely not take the case unless they believe that they will win money or the person must be willing to pay for the service. 2. Filing nuisance law suites is usually

Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing list (500+ subscribers), and cause general disruption: 1) Many posts (20+) in a short period of time 2) Posts were off topic 3) She attacked list moderators and other members of the list 4) She threatened that she would

Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:27:09 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing list (500+ subscribers), and cause general disruption: 1) Many posts (20+) in a short period of time 2) Posts were off topic 3) She attacked list

Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:27:09 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing list (500+ subscribers), and cause general disruption: 1) Many posts

Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

2014-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:27:09 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing