Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:58:41 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can people get banned from this mailing list? Message-ID: <20140417105841.63adc10c@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <724F48B2-8E0D-43FF-9143-57899C086A67@gmail.com> References: <CDCA51EB-13B2-40F8-8BFB-78CF3FAEBE8F@gmail.com> <20140416120448.271fb7aa@X220.alogt.com> <724F48B2-8E0D-43FF-9143-57899C086A67@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:40:08 -0500 Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> > >> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Firstly, I have to disagree with you; I'd say that spam is MUCH > harder to block than trolling. Spam are usually going to come from a just have only registered users on all lists as a first step. It will not stop then spam coming from harvesters of e-mail addresses here and sending their spam out from hacked Windows machine. > As to the trolls ability to change email addresses, that's why you > use shadowbanning. But, to be honest, I'm not even sure that this It is also a problem that people here are not allowed to deal with trolls without having the risk of being banned. > Maybe it doesn't even matter, but it's just weird having this high > quality, intelligent mailing list, and then out of all that, having > this one guy who uses the mailing list like the way that my grandma > uses her email contacts. > Life is life. Erich
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