Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: > Pekka Savola writes: > >> Why must each and every WG member be required to filter a person's >> postings? Much more convenient to do so in one place. > > Because each and every WG member is an individual, with his own ideas > of what he does or doesn't want to read, and imposing the same rules > upon everyone prevents members from making their own decisions. It > also imposes the decisions of a small minority upon the majority. Here goes for a try... flame me off list if required. As it is indeed quite controversial to 'block' people, maybe there can be a solution that, though it will have overhead for listadmins, it will help the process that the workinggroup is actually for in the first place. In the several messages there have been brought up a number of solutions to the problem where one or multiple entities are (deliberately) flooding/overloading the mailinglists of workinggroups and other places with off-topic messages. There seem to be a couple of solutions, amongst which: - Filtering based on source address at the receiver - Filtering based on keywords, which has really bad side-effects. - Blocking the sender at the mailinglist level. - 3683 PR for complete full blockage of posting rights. The first is reasonably fine, as you don't see the message of the entity that one finds not useful, but you might see responses of others thus this is still intrusive and you still get those messages which you wanted to filter out. The second option might filter out messages which you did want to read. Both still will get these messages in the mailinglist archive, even though there was a consensus that those messages are unwanted. The third and fourth option are pretty definitive, no more messages from that entity, but this might be seen as silencing this persons freedom of speech. My proposal to solve this issue but keeping everybody happy: Two mailinglists: <wg>@ietf.org + full.<wg>@ietf.org full.<wg>@ is completely open, anybody can post anything they want though hopefully on topic on the subject of the workinggroup and of course based on the source address having a subscription *1 full.<wg>@ is subscribed to <wg>@ thus full.wg gets everything preserving, at least parts, of the freedom of speech that is wanted and for the people who want to read a lot of mail everyday. Initially everybody who signs up to the <wg>@ list can post to it. When the consensus on the list is that a member is not participating correctly, ignoring warnings etc, like currently this member can be banned from the list for a temporary amount of time. The member can still voice his opinions on the <wg>@ list. This thus allows him to voice his concerns to the members that do want to read them. Like the current 3683 PR the ban can become effectively indefinitely for the main list, while the poster is still and always allowed on full.<wg>@. The big concern here is of course that one could say that if you get booted out of the group that your voice won't be heard as they are not reading the other list. This is of course true, but one can raise their concerns on the full list, for instance Google won't differentiate between them and there will always be folks who will listen to it and forward these concerns when they have valid argumentation. By posting 'good' messages to the full.<wg>@ list a member can also demonstrate that he is really willing to contribute instead of disrupt. One of the nicest controversies is of course what to determine good and bad, starwars as an example, how bad are the jedi and how good are the sith, it completely depends on the side you are on, nothing else. That all boils down to trust and other factors, any mailinglist admin could abuse his position to set the sender of an address to silently discard, SMTP can have a CC: in the header and mailman will not forward the message to that person and various other nice tricks. I hope the above might give a better point to discuss all this over instead of seeing replies like "that is not good" "see above" and other comments without effective constructive arguments. Greets, Jeroen *1 = to avoid the large amount of spam flowing to the various lists which nicely get blocked because of subscription regulation.
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