* Joey Hess: > Simply obfuscating the name on the list of banned users (or not posting > any names at all, only links to the posts that led to the ban) would > eliminate most reputational damage. Ie, random searches for that > person would not turn up a high pagerank debian.org page listing their > youthful indiscretions. > > Using eg "J. Hess" would probably be fine in most cases.
I recommend to use a web page, and not announce bans on public mailing lists because such announcements invite subsequent discussion, likely decloaking the banned poster. We could also add metatags/robots.txt exclusions to prevent indexing of the page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iowipfex....@mid.deneb.enyo.de