In message <CAO3CAMpPySJfm=z-wf39evlkk7rcoksno3tgtsmq074l23i...@mail.gmail.com>, Siyuan Miao <[email protected]> wrote:
>Dear community, > >It might be off-topic but should we only allow people with company email to >discuss here? > >There are always mysterious people with gmail.com email addresses >supporting Larus / Cloud Innovation and you can't even find any other >records when you Google their name or email address. If asked, I would vote "no" on that proposal. People using gmail accounts is not the problem. The problem is *anonymous* fake people using gmail accounts. Nobody using any kind of "freemail" email address should be allowed to post unless and until they have persuasively established their bona fides, i.e. who they are, that they are real people, and that they have some CLEARLY ARTICULATABLE basis for having an interest in matters pertaining to AFRINIC. I would propose that -any- participant on -any- AFRINIC mailing list should be permitted to send a private email to [email protected] which calls into question the legitimacy of any other single participant on any AFRINIC mailing list, and that [email protected] would then be obliged to make appropriate inquiries regarding the reality/legitimacy of that other mailing list participant, up to and including requiring a copy of that other participant's passport (with photo) or other government-issued identification document, as well as a clear and persuasive statement of the basis for that participant's interest in AFRINIC-related matters. In lieu of such reasonable bona fides, the participant's email address would be blocked (by [email protected]) from making further list posts. This is not heavy-handed censorship. This is merely common sense mailing list moderation and administration, and I, for one, am frankly appalled by the fact that whoever is supposed to be administering the mailing lists for AFRINIC has not already and unilaterally undertaken these obviously necessary steps to maintain order. I mean this has gotten totally out of hand already some time ago. And AFRINIC's response to this self-evident problem... or, more accurately, its lack of response... is nothing short of blind denialism. Will we have to wait until this mailing list is overrun with spammers selling bogus cryptocurrency schemes before [email protected] takes the situation in hand and at long last does his/her job? Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
