Actually, btw, I wrote to "Globe Trotter" and s/he was quite taken aback because s/he said that s/he had unsubscribed from the list some time ago. S/He also said that s/he would follow my suggestion and change his/her password. But, I was thinking, what is the guarantee that the "fake" poster e-mailed using his/her password. Is it that difficult to spoof an e-mail address and post pretending from there? I think the Fedora list may allow posts from unsubscribed individuals. Perhaps these people could be made to go through a moderated process? S/He was very apologetic to me and, by extension, to others on the list. Ranjan On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:38:18 -0600 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 14:12 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 10:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 07:49 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > >> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: > > >>>> http://la-felce.it/index808.php > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> Isn't it time to ban this idiot? > > >>> > > >>> poc > > >>> > > >> The problem here is that the user's yahoo password has been hacked. I > > >> have seen this exact same thing with other yahoo, gmail and aol > > >> addresses. The user needs to change his/her yahoo password to clear > > >> this up. > > > If the user is a genuine member of the list, by now they should have > > > noticed the crap being sent in their name and done something about it. > > > > > > If they aren't, why do we care about banning them? > > > > > > Even if they are genuine and for some reason haven't noticed the > > > problem, banning them only means they'll get a reject from Mailman, > > > whereupon they have the opportunity of appealing to the list admin. > > We shouldn't. The user should be unsubscribed from the list, certainly, > > removing any user who violates list policy either knowingly or > > unknowingly should be removed. > > Are you *quite* sure about that? The only policy as such is contained in > the list guidelines, which are regularly violated with impunity (and > those of us who complain are often subjected to name-calling for our > pains), but getting medieval with any and all violators is unlikely to > lead to a more congenial list on the whole. > > > Banning a person from the list would > > require listadmin approval to rejoin. It just requires more work for the > > listadmin. > > Maybe. Presumably spammers wouldn't bother arguing with the admin, but > they probably wouldn't bother resubscribing either. > > poc > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
