RE: Drivel

2009-09-16 Thread Bob O'Brien
Michael Hutchinson [mailto:mhutchin...@manux.co.nz] wrote: -Original Message- From: Charles Gregory [mailto:cgreg...@hwcn.org] Good users all. Never heard of a troll? Nonsensical. Irritating. Taunting. Best defense against this kind of childish antic is to IGNORE it.

Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Guys, first of all, I personally *highly* welcome the community to step up like you did in this case. There's no need to wait for the PMC to tell some seriously mis-behaving subscriber to watch his language. Thanks for that! Oh, and just in case -- this is not about words, but meaning and

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:59 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote: Please feel free to directly ping the list owners or use some other channel to quickly trigger the PMC's attention if need be. Rather than just posting yet another message to an already crowded thread. The latter is exactly where your call for authority is much

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:10 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: At 01:59 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote: Please feel free to directly ping the list owners or use some other channel to quickly trigger the PMC's attention if need be. Rather than just posting yet another message to an already crowded thread.

Re: [sa] Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: See the List-Help header. A mail to users-help returns, among a lot of other info, the users-owner address as a last resort. This will reach the moderators. (Same with all ezmlm lists, btw.) I had considered this, but another poster made the

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake address just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is the simplest and best

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 16 sep 2009 01:08:30 CEST, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote *Please*, everyone -- don't feed the trolls. well i still can drink my beers alone :) but it would be more fun to see the trolls dont have one -- xpoint

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Landry
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake address just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is the simplest and best

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Landry
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake address just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is the simplest and

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 16:36 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: Yes, the buzzard has also displayed the same abusive nature under his other email address many times in the past. He uses the same email client (X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3), the same reference in his Message-Id (camel), and the same source

Drivel

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Clunk Werclick wrote: (more drivel) Good users all. Never heard of a troll? Nonsensical. Irritating. Taunting. Best defense against this kind of childish antic is to IGNORE it. Yes, a firewall setting doesn't hurt. - Charles

RE: Drivel

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Charles Gregory [mailto:cgreg...@hwcn.org] Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 9:34 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Drivel On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Clunk Werclick wrote: (more drivel) Good users all. Never heard of a troll? Nonsensical