I had an idea - a kind of "flood detection" that's probably inspired by IRC experience:Sorry about all the bogus messages. Unfortunately the list administrator Wez is away today, but I've unsubscribed Jeff Koenig from the list, so it should get back to normal now. We'll look into how to stop it happening again.
- Any address posting more than N messages (suggest 10) in a single time period T (suggest 1 day) is 'flagged' for watching, for that day.
- If, in the space of N further messages from that address, three or more messages from a flagged address appear without an intervening message from an unflagged address, multiple times, the address is blocked.
- The administrator can unblock addresses when the problem has been fixed.
- The administrator can also whitelist addresses to prevent blocking.
The above rules should eliminate the possibility of a legitimate human poster being accidentally banned, and would certainly have triggered for Mr. Koenig.
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