Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert
(greg@gregfolkert.net) wrote:
> That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It
> will be seen a a "bad thing" by the blogosphere and some journalists
> that see only bad things.
You mean more bad than "the main support forum of one of the purest
(in the FSF/GNU sense) distros out there is worthless because it's
more noise than substance"?
> * Don't respond to "Trolls"
> * Don't respond to "flames"
> * Don't respond to "hard to resist" messages
> * Don't respond to "provoked into" messages
This is useless when there is a whole patrol of trolls all intent to
answer each other.
> No, there is another way, making all Debian lists subscriber only.
Personally, I'd like it, if nothing else because the spam sent to
debian-users messes with bayesian filtering. This one is the only
lists where I get false positives (tips to improve this are welcome,
but are probably better off list, or at least as a separate thread).
This said, if this list became subscriber-only, you would still have
to ban those addresses to solve the problem, isn't it?
Marco
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