This is clearly an idea whose time has come. I'd like to propose the following:
1. A mailing list be set up of volunteers who would review nominations. 2. Nominations could be made for users who disrupted mailing lists, or the operation thereof, either through malice or cluelessness. This could include such as we have discussed, as well as other things. The nomination would be up to the list manager. 3. Nominations would be made through, um, a password protected web page? An open web page? Nominators would assert that they had operational or editorial responsibility for a mailing list and would have to provide an example. This could include such things as submitting spam complaints to unsubscribe, posting tests, making specious free speech arguments, and the like. 4. The nominations would be converted to e-mail, which would be then evaluated by the list of volunteers who would be on the mailing list. 5. If the majority of voters voted to approve the nomination, then it would be "published". 6. Access to the published list would be by request and nomination. The same "cabal" of volunteers who approve nominations for the list would also approve access. However, it would be permitted for a nominee to tell a user why they were being rejected, including revealing the nomination. 7. It needs a name. Something obvious like "clueless luser list" appeals. 8. The cabal who put people on the list would also have to hear appeals. It could be amusing. I'm willing to host it. Should we discuss the mechanism here or should I set up a list to discuss the mechanism on (which would turn into the nomination and appeal list). Once we describe the mechanism, I will implement it. I will be willing to include various means of access, which could include DNS, web page, and so forth. At 08:18 AM 2001-11-16 -0500, Bernie Cosell wrote: >On 16 Nov 2001, at 2:31, Vince Sabio wrote: > > > ** Sometime around 12:03 -0800 11/15/01, Rick Vandenberg said: > > > > >[Only_slightly_tongue_in_cheek_mode = ON] > > > > > >I propose that a new on-line database be created, listing the email > > >addresses of people who have exhibited any of the following behaviour > > >with respect to lists: > >How about guys who have their 'vacation' programs set up to send their >'I'm away' message to the list. [and can there be some kind of "MLMDP" >for the lusers whose vacation program doesn't even detect their own >message and so puts the list into a loop?] > > /Bernie\ > > >-- >Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA > --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill Nick Simicich - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
