On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Benda Xu <hero...@gentoo.org> wrote: > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> I do feel that this decision reflects badly on us as a community and >> should be reversed immediately. The proper way to deal with people who >> have bad behavior is to deal with them individually and not put a >> restriction on the community that is not necessary. > > I agree with William. Dealing with individuals makes more sense. > > It boils down to an attitude of assuming outsiders are good (blacklist > to ML) or bad (whitelist to ML) by default.
Actually, I think it is more of a technical constraint. It is basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since all they need to do is roll up a new email address. I can think of various arguments for whitelisting or not whitelisting, but it seems silly to blacklist. -- Rich
