Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 22:13:52 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can people get banned from this mailing list? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3bP_91RLFvypZS6_GiyK6ZQ7x9mQxub01sX0j2CH84wA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 16, 2014 9:58 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > > 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. Reasoning for this has been explained extensively. 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. I am unclear how 'people here are not allowed' to edit their killfile.
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