Can people get banned from this mailing list?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 03:13:54 UTC 2014


On Apr 16, 2014 9:58 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:40:08 -0500
> Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Erich Dollansky <erich at 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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