Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 21 June 2010 16:34:25 slamberton wrote:
1. Unacceptable activity: in this instance its the use of this mailing
list--which is to discuss LPI program and activities, or on a wider note,
Linux and Open Source Software, to use this list as a personal recruitment
vehicle for social networking tools e.g. sending a blanket invitation to
the entire community to a particular social network app (e.g. facebook,
linkedin, etc.). Its happened before and people didn't like it. Its
misuse of the lists' intentions--and I don't know of any mailing list that
would permit this kind of activity.
Scott,
This is correct, but consider how these annoying things happen:
User signs up for some social service and it tells him if he gives it his
gmail account, it will invite all his friends so we can all have FUN!!!!
And the user does it, not realising mailing lists are in his gmail contacts.
So there are 3 flaws:
- the user is just being thick and unobservant
- mailing lists seldom have a means to discard these invites
- social network sites don't care and just blast every address
Punishing the first one heavily is probably too big a hammer (especially as
pranksters can abuse it). We can't really influence #3 much, which leaves #2.
I haven't run a Mailman instance for a while but the logic to get it to
recognize invites shouldn't be too hard to implement so I feel one's efforts
should be directed there. It fits nicely into a sysadmin's job of "protect the
users from crap".
As far repeat offenders - for those you must do what you must.
Alan:
1. So we want "users" who are "thick and unobservant" on this list? ;-)
2. I already have IT looking into this. In the meantime the "zero
tolerance" procedure (and this thread for present subscribers, warning
message for new ones) should weed out #1 above.
scott
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