On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Jameson Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > What is preventing our list administrators from removing the offending party > from the subscribers list, and adding a regex for the offending domain to > the ban list? The years of repeated violation of publicly stated list rules > would justify this - and to do so could greatly benefit the quality of our > transactions.
As Galen Sietz mentioned in a thread in PLUG-TALK, the list administrators take a different tack to the situation: http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2004-May/032032.html Banning even a single member from this list (no matter what side of this issue you fall on) has the potential to snowball into something much nastier; I'd hate to see a GNU/Linux mailing list degenerate into a walled garden where discussion about free software is maintained by a select few. The old adage goes "Live and let be", and that's exactly what I do when reading this list, many times I ignore the originating sender and focus on the content of the post, amazing right? If the topic doesn't pertain and/or interest you then perhaps it is in your best interest to leave it alone. This idle banter about degrading the quality of the list etc, etc, is only affecting the bigots who choose to focus on the actions of a solitary troll -- ignore it and move on! I think we've beaten this horse long enough, can we please drop the issue? -FF- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
