Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I have with unsubscribing repeat offenders who consistently flame
> others or get nationalist/racist/inappropriate flame wars started is that there
> is nothing to keep them from being able to subscribe a new email address and do
> it all again.

There's nothing sensible you can do about this - identity on the
internet is slippery
(and many people prefer it that way)

OTOH, it would be one pain in the neck vs say four list admins.  I'm
sure the problem poster
will give up resubscribing before the admins give up blocking him/her.

Filtering by automated content matching will not work.  Too many false
positives, and too many
ways around it.  How many different ways do the spammers discuss the
size of your <xxx> ?

Brian
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