Brad Knowles writes: > Khalil Abbas wrote: > > > and please, leave the type of mailing aside, if you're a non believer > > don't offend other people, I didn't try to shove my beliefs into your > > faces and I was really offended with what you said about religion.. > > I've seen the same sort of thing, and it doesn't really matter what > religion you talk about -- zealotry is zealotry,
True enough, and zealous atheists/agnostics can get just as bad, too, but let's drop this. We don't know that it didn't happen as he said, and it's just a popular service that grows by the day. Even if he *is* spamming or "pushing content out of zealotry", well, he'll find out what the world thinks of that soon enough, and we've done our best to warn him. Sure, it will have some effect on Mailman's rep (or would have, if he hadn't decided to switch to something else), but that kind of blowback does happen. That's why even the BSD and MIT licenses have warranty disclaimers in them. Not that that will stop a lawyer from suing if they think they can frighten you into paying up, nor will it stop the ignorant from blaming Mailman for the spammers' sins. We just need to get used to it. For the future, I think it's reasonable to tell people "what you're doing smells like spamming (or whatever) to me", and tell them what happens to hosts that smell of spam. If they deny spamming, and get all self-righteous about the stench, too, then it's on their own heads. And of course it's up to each Mailman user to decide whether they believe that person, and help them (or not) with what they're doing. Isn't it? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
