Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

[Benda Xu]

William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> writes:

> I do feel that this decision reflects badly on us as a community and
> should be reversed immediately. The proper way to deal with people who
> have bad behavior is to deal with them individually and not put a
> restriction on the community that is not necessary.

I agree with William.  Dealing with individuals makes more sense.

It boils down to an attitude of assuming outsiders are good (blacklist
to ML) or bad (whitelist to ML) by default.

Benda