Re: What rules exist on blocking mailing list subscribers?

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:20, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > > I'd say you can make it very clear to him that offensive writing is not > > acceptable. If it happens again, I can block him. I don't think we have > > real policies and it's a lot of work keeping a troll of the internet :-/ > > I had brought this same individual to Hannes' attention a few > weeks back. I was going to request access on systems@ to the mailing > list server (to what degree of success, I don't know ;-P) so that I > could help not just with this, but with the dozens of "I can't > unsubscribe, I hate you all, screw you, PHP!!1!" kind of emails I get > personally every month. > > This "Brandon" character, though, has also been deliberately > giving bad code out to individuals who are too green and novice to > know the difference. By "bad" I don't just mean "messy," but rather, > "malicious." There's little we can do to wipe the existing stuff off > the Internet, but maybe we could at least ban him and minimize the > damage. I am unsubscribing him as a first step. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug