From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10248 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2006 09:27:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 10240 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2006 09:27:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:27:09 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:27:06 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:27:05 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'a modest proposal'" Subject: RE: A banner day Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: <015c01c6645c$951a1080$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20060420061142.GA9303@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 On 20 April 2006 07:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: > sending off-topic messages in one form or another. > I gave each of these people 3 or 4 warnings before blocking them and, > Usually when I block someone, I block them from all of the cygwin lists. > But, tonight, I have chosen to only block Gary R. Van Sickle from the > cygwin-apps list. Maybe when I wake up tomorrow, I will conclude that > this was a big mistake because, after all, Gary does sometimes provide > useful technical feedback. > Anyway, if anyone has a problem with my decision, This post is not about the rightness or wrongness of that decision in this particular case, but a suggestion for a half-way measure to use in such circumstances: if the problem is repeated OT posting, and they refuse to TITTTL it, which is the proper thing to do if you want to pursue an OT thread, then you could just as well put all their posts on auto-redirect to this group rather than ban them altogether. This would only make sense as a temporary measure but it would let people get it (whatever 'it' might be on that particular occasion) out of their system and once the thread had finally died away the auto-redirect could be turned off again. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....