On 21 June 2010 11:05, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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!!!! > Not always. Sometimes the networking is intended to be serious, notably on networks such as Linkedin which people have used to help get jobs. (Indeed, a well done Linkedin profile doesn't look much different from most resumes). And given the nature of certification, people want to share their new-found status with others who might be looking for certified people. I agree that the practice is rude but IMO the punishment is way out of line with the serverity of the infraction. The person didn't try to take down the list and did not try to hide intentions in the Subject line. It's quite easy to program a filter in Gmail or elsewhere to delete/trash such messages (or, even worse, mark them as spam, which could in the long term be worse for the sender than a ban from LPI lists)... Usually I find that a polite message accomplishes the task of stopping the disruption without having to go too far in punishment. I would agree with those who have cautioned that, given the global nature of LPI, it needs to consider that cultural definitions of rudeness vary quite a lot from place to place. The target of the ban may not even realize that what they're doing is annoying to others, and by the time they find out they're banned. Then, as others have said, an awareness of this policy can be exploited by jerks to deliberately get people banned by forging rude email -- doing so is actually quite easy if someone really wants to. In other words, the reasons against such heavy-handed action are many, and compelling. Too much room for abuse, too little understanding of relative cultural norms. Scott, I humbly suggest that you reconsider. - Evan
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