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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote: |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> writes: |
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>> I do feel that this decision reflects badly on us as a community and |
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>> should be reversed immediately. The proper way to deal with people who |
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>> have bad behavior is to deal with them individually and not put a |
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>> restriction on the community that is not necessary. |
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> I agree with William. Dealing with individuals makes more sense. |
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> It boils down to an attitude of assuming outsiders are good (blacklist |
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> to ML) or bad (whitelist to ML) by default. |
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Actually, I think it is more of a technical constraint. It is |
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basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since |
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all they need to do is roll up a new email address. |
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I can think of various arguments for whitelisting or not whitelisting, |
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but it seems silly to blacklist. |
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Rich |
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