On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:07:03 +0530 > > Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > phoenix24 wrote: > > > > To find out more about Twitter, visit the link below: > > > > > > > > http://twitter.com/i/d32cf65c9e7fbd1f1f5679052d16d086b34baf8 > > > we request you to be careful when adding people to social networking > > > sites. Sending such invites to a public, technical mailing list is > > > considered bad net-etiquette. Please forbid from doing so in future. > > [...] > > > > Ah, just dashed off a reply with regards to this. > > > > However, I am much more of a hard-liner with respect to such nonsense. > > While I can sympathise with a newbie who does this without realising > > the implication, this sort of an attitude is actively encouraged by > > so-called services like Twitter. So, my opinion is to fight fire > > with fire. For the mailing lists that I administer, one such message, > > And I thought you fight fire with water of any other fire extinguisher. > On a serious note this kind of angry young man attitude on public > list only piss off newbies and genuine users. > Banning people from mailing list for on such offense is like > murdering someone because they had collided with you under nearly zero > visibility. I think mailing lists are public forum and demand some > tolerance. Having school master like dictatorial style of > administration will only result in reduced traffic. > As suggested by Aanjan, it is better to put the person on moderated > list and watch him. Also, it is better to write to the OP (a personal > email) warning him not to give away email address like this. > > Which ever mailing list admin (and I am talking in general sense and > not specific to this mailing list) has a problem with such spam mail, > please take it forward with the specific website, instead of banning > ill-informed user. Be it a campaign, consortium, foundation whatever > you feel is appropriate to exert pressure on such websites, please do > it, we will support you in the initiative. Taking out frustration on > the mailing list user is a clear sign othat the admin is incapable of > doing his job. >
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