Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote: ... lots of good examples ... well done !
I too dont think any complainer should have the right to kill a thread, just cos he/she wrote something they later wish to retract. Killing a thread would be gross abuse of all other posters' rights, & would invite worse abuse: anyone could write to a thread knowing they could leverage it later to kill a whole thread. My guess is GDPR (& later similar elsewhere) will probably have been drafted by, & interpreted by mostly politicians & lawyers clueless of our sort of mail lists, who will not have thought through most nasty edge cases we could easily present. Most probably they wont know more than nasty anonymous low grade abusive cases on commercial [anti-]social web chat forums. ( As a crude test I'd expect most drafters to be top posters, gratuitously breaking context, not our sort of list people. (I only know one lawyer professionaly, & typicaly he top posts, & thinks tech style bottom posters weird & they should confirm to his Normal standards, - never occurs to such `Normal' people that they are un-educated, & are contravening Internet procedures techs evolved for good reasons. )). So no faith in GDPR or similar being anything other than drafted by & interpreted by ignorant `Normal' people who will bring us nothing but trouble, & who will seek to waste time of unpaid admins. Hence my intent is to reduce the threat of time wasters as much as pos.: to draft something that says all those who don't conform to our norms are breaching the domains terms of unpaid service, & they lose all rights to waste our time. It wont be water- tight, but if it reduces time wasters, it's sufficient. Most unpaid volunteer admins aren't about to pay their own money to get lawyers to write water tight clauses to protect us from wasters, so I see no better option. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Computer Consultant, Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Brexit Referendum stole 3,700,000 votes, inc. 700,000 from British in EU. UK Govt. lied it's "democratic" in Article 50 letter to EU paragraph 3. Petition for votes: http://berklix.eu/queen/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org