Re: [gentoo-security] Hey guys

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 02:45, J.A. wrote:
> It means to embrace the random I guess. Sorry I do not want to spam or
> troll this list or be banned for inapproporiate posts. If you all think
> I should reply back to every post with the subject "Should I change my
> password" then I could do that but I must warn youthat I have been
> moderated before in the past. I take it that this is not a newsgroup so
> that means that instead of filters, the politically correct thing to do
> would be to the gentoo-security moderator establish a list of banned
> gentoo-security users instead of setting up a filter in each persons
> email client.
>
> It is very annoying to be kicked off an email list when all you have to
> do is change your email and then go through a proxy to resubscribe. So
> I guess I would like to know how someone like myself would be
> unsubscribed from gentoo-security and for what reason.
>
> I guess what I am saying is that I want to learn about gentoo-security
> but do not want to be banned. To learn more about me you can read my
> MYSPACE.COM profile pointed to here: http://thesame.net/MYSPACE

In general banning users does not happen a lot if at all. What is desired 
is some kind of proper behaviour. Only breaking email threads is 
certainly not enough. To be banned one would probably have to be trolling 
a lot, sending spam, or something the like. Most things certainly warant 
a warning first (probably only spamming being an exception).

In short, don't be afraid. It's appreciated if you follow the requests of 
other members, but you will not be kicked if you forget. Worst thing 
you'll be ignored.

Paul

ps. The idea is that if the thread stumbled upon a different subject, you 
change the subject line. If however you want to have a different subject 
to which the previous mail is not really related, you start a new thread.

-- 
Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@g.o
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net