Russ Allbery writes ("Re: I resigned in 2004"): > "Never contact me again" is what one is supposed to tell someone if they > feel like they're being harassed. It's the sort of thing that I do think > we want to try to honor unless we have some reasonable reason to believe > that something weird is going on. I think it's highly unlikely that > anything good for anyone will ever come out of sending another message to > someone who says that.
And if it is absolutely necessary to follow up on such a message because it seems like it might be a forgery or something, then that should be done privately and with great care. It should be accompanied by an apology; and the message should probably be reviewed for tone and content by someone other than the author. But I agree that this will almost never be necessary. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.