On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:34:42 +0530 Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:18:23PM +0530, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > wrote: > > Sudhanwa, Gaurav and/or other "admins" : > > > > Why do we allow/tolerate "certain individuals" to post "rants" > > unrelated to linux/OSS ? > > > > I tried to ignore such emails for a long time, but then more > > "obscure" emails started coming in (and more frequently) > > > > I refuse to reply to such individuals because most likely I will > > get a response, which won't make sense (at all), Also I > > remembered a saying that "If you wrestle a pig, you'll get dirty > > and pig will enjoy (and pig will win due to practice)" > > I share the sentiment. I am also a long term member of this list > (for 18/19 years). The quality of posts of late has been poor. > > I once wrote individually to some of the people you have addressed > above. > > Since there appears to be no institutional mechanism (or any > discussion thereon) to shun the nuisance I just did the best I > could individually: If I notice habitual obscure/non sense senders, > I block them in my mailbox. (To be precise, I use procmail to > redirect such senders' "stuff" to /dev/null). > > Moderation could be one solution (though I know it was once done > away with after such demand). I do not know what other best > practices exist for this. >
Trouble being mailer keeps re-appearing with a different mail id. Unless new membership itself is moderated, though cant guarantee person taking a different cloak to get in. Karunakar _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list [email protected] http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
