On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 07:07:36PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> writes: > > > Indeed, I was very bothered. > > > On the other hand, most of my reply to willy's mail was not addressed to > > him, but to debian-devel@ at large, to have everybody else understand > > how silly what he did was. Replying to my email in d-private@ saying > > "aye aye, I really want to go away" wold have been *far* more effecting > > (even if process-wise I'd have preferred him click the damn buttons we > > sent him) and his case would most likely already been closed. > > > Instead, he decided to throw such a bothersome mail in debian-devel. > > The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that if > someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we should do > what we can to never contact them again.
+1. This was a *very* clear message, in that respect, although I certainly agree that it wasn't necessary to phrase it quite in that way. A single sentence saying "message received", if at all, would have been more than enough; the OP clearly wasn't interested in *why* Debian was contacting him again after fourteen years, and any explanation to that effect would only be a nuisance to him, anyway. -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
