[arch-general] This is the "arch"-general list - Was Burning From Command Line

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Attila <vodoo0904 at sonnenkinder.org> wrote:
>>> At Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010 16:25 Gaurish Sharma wrote:
>>>>  Also the truth is one person cannot be responsible for 50+threads.
>>>> other people are replying to as well, so should be Joerg be blamed
>>>> alone? if you want to ban, he should not be only one.
>>>
>>> +100 and if you ban someone than you have to ban me because i'm the startpoint
>>> of this underthread ... a little cue in this case would be helpfull.-)
>>
>> To be clear:
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm going to give this the rest of the day to simmer down, then I'm
>>> going to start moderating/banning accounts
>>
>> Notice that "accounts" is the plural, not the singular.
>>
>
>
> Err. I don't think you should do that unless they become a pure
> nuisance. I am facing a similar situation with Squidoo. Because of
> someone else on my subnet (I have static ip), spamming on their site
> (or may be due to a virus, its a common scene here), they have banned
> the whole subnet. And now even after several request they won't
> whitelist me. You may end up banning some for none of their mistake.

Moderating an account merely puts emails from that account on hold
until approved by a moderator.