Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:40:08 -0500 From: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can people get banned from this mailing list? Message-ID: <724F48B2-8E0D-43FF-9143-57899C086A67@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140416120448.271fb7aa@X220.alogt.com> References: <CDCA51EB-13B2-40F8-8BFB-78CF3FAEBE8F@gmail.com> <20140416120448.271fb7aa@X220.alogt.com>
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>> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > Hi, >=20 > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:50:17 -0500 > Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> I was wondering if people can get banned from this mailing list. Not >> necessarily for swearing or hate speech, but for constantly sending >> crappy, potentially troll bait content to the mailing list without >> contributing in any way. Sorry for asking, but I couldn't find a list >> of the rules anywhere. Of course I have a name in mind, but I'd >> prefer to tell it to a mod rather than in public. But, I couldn't >> find out who the mods are, either. > there is currently more spam than trolling on this list. There would be > a way to stop spam, but trolling? The troll will get a new e-mail > address and off he goes again. >=20 > Erich Hi Erich, Firstly, I have to disagree with you; I'd say that spam is MUCH harder to bl= ock than trolling. Spam are usually going to come from a different email add= ress every time, and a lot of the time they'll be from legitimate email add= resses that have been hacked. A good troll generally has to build up people'= s anger gradually, by building up a reputation with a persona. As to the trolls ability to change email addresses, that's why you use shado= wbanning. But, to be honest, I'm not even sure that this person is actually a= troll; if they are a troll, they are much more subtle than 90% of trolls ev= er are. As this is a BSD mailing list, you would think the most effective wa= y to get a flamewar going would be with anti-BSD content, rather then extrem= ely stupid pro-BSD content. Maybe it doesn't even matter, but it's just weird having this high quality, i= ntelligent mailing list, and then out of all that, having this one guy who u= ses the mailing list like the way that my grandma uses her email contacts. [FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: hillarious!! IF DR SEUSS WAS A BSD FAN......] --Matt=
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