On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Anurag <[email protected]> wrote: > This is OT, but taking hot-headed decisions is not a good idea IMHO. > Same thing goes for blanket statements about "government employees". > > Mehul, please put people who lease out their address books on moderation.
Acts of foolishness need to be punished severely especially now that you know that the OP hasn't visited since past 1 year, doesn't give a s*** about his email to this list causing inconvenience to so many people? Ban him, for life I say. Its not a hot-headed decision, its a level-headed well thought out decision. I would be willing to understand if he apologized or he truly erred but in this case it is *not* so. Ok the blanket statement was wrong. I apologize for it. Lastly, putting these people on moderation will only increase a mods work load, it wont solve anything since after a while he'll be taken off the moderation list. This is when he might repeat his offense. By kicking him off the list, it will ensure two things. One, if the person is really interested and apologetic for his actions, he might use a different email id to register to the list which he may not so foolishly give out. Two, these sites like linkedin, they send out reminders if the contact hasn't responded to the person's invitation. In this case, that email will be dropped by mailman, saving a lot of people a lot of headache ( including mods ). Isn't this solution better than moderating the person? His offense will repeat if linkedin sends a reminder and it will continue doing so until the OP decides to take linuxers off his linkedin profile. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
