>> No need to wait that long. If there is a call for a vote on the matter you >> have my public input for a formal ban under the terms of the TOU now. If >> there are some procedural details we can sort that out as required. >> >> > > Quick question -- will a ban do any good? Is there anyway to verify > that david.johnson.x...@gmail.com is anyone actually someone > named david.johnson? > > AFAIK, anyone can get a gmail account and call it anything they want. > So, you ban this gmail account, and tomorrow he's back as bill smith, > or paul jones. > > Just asking ... > > emike
Obviously everybody could do this any arbitrary number of times. But every time this person needs a new email address for activating his list subscription(s). After a while this person might get tired of it and go elsewhere. The only 100% waterproof method against such malicious behavior would be, to generally set all list messages to all lists under moderator review. And this would cost money (staff), while simultaneously significantly slowing down communication. You can only add some email address to a blacklist _after_ first impact. Although I see one compromise: Instead of a blacklist a green-list should be maintained. (With all Oracle employees, contributors plus known long-term community members on it). Furthermore I must also agree with Richard Hamilton: With (some more) authoritative community interaction and communication from Oracle's side, nobody could ever have believed such a troll in the first place. Not for a minute! It is Oracle who created the vacuum, which naturally tends to fill up with FUD! And by the way, while I also fell in this troll's 2 traps, it took a long time until somebody went the steps to prove that troll being a liar. So in fact I was by no means the only one who was fooled. While I appear to be the only one until now who apologized and accepted full responsibility for having believed and fed him .... But unfortunately that's normal social behavior. %mab _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
