A.,
Regarding your message dated: 18 September 2000...
ACM> It's a ban on both.
Just out of interest - I assume that any ban is made against the
subscriber's email address and therefore there would be little to stop
a banned individual from re-subscribing under another alias thanks to
the anonymity the net provides.
Naturally, if someone were to do this then either they would need to
modify their behaviour to avoid an equally quick second departure
which might be to the benefit of the list (or not?) but I guess what I
am asking is that if someone really wants on to the list there's
probably little that can be done to prevent it.
My only thought against the above would be if a ban were also placed
on specific IP addresses if the banned party were known to have static
addresses that identified them uniquely and even then it wouldn't be
too hard to circumvent.
I suppose one has to just trust that the party that has been removed
from the group list 'honours' that ban and does not attempt to gain
entry by other means.
Just thinking aloud given the immediate 'candid' responses in case
anyone might have considered 'talking ill of the dead' so to speak...
Mark.
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