Re: proposed addition to debian-women list filtering, please comment
* Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2006-06-13 00:31]:
> You may have noticed that we've had a difficult time enforcing appropriate
> standards of mailing list behavior against a particular troll over the past
> year or so. The problem is largely a technical one: by using throw-away
> Yahoo! Mail accounts and relaying messages through tor
> (http://tor.eff.org/), he evades traditional list filtering mechanisms and
> avoids real-world accountability for his actions without any penalties that
> are of concern to your run-of-the-mill sociopath.
>
> Brainstorming on IRC has led to a proposed filter enhancement to block all
> mails sent to this list that have been relayed at any point through a known
> tor router. This would have the effect of preventing our troll from sending
> any further mails to this mailing list without disclosing his real location
> on the Internet and exposing himself to legal accountability. It would also
> mirror the existing ban list in place on the IRC network, which prevents
> people from joining #debian-women when connected through tor routers.
I strongly disagree with censoring Mails coming from hosts that _also_
host tor nodes. The host several DDs including me use
(asteria.debian.or.at) is a tor (tough not exit) node hosting also a
mixmaster anonymous remailer.
I feel offended and hurt that you want to censor me because I use a host
where we provide a imo useful service for others (there are many valid
reasons to use tor and mixmaster).
Trolls like the ones posting to the lists should be treated like spam:
ignored and best filtered by bogofilter and/or spamassassin et al.
yours Martin
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