On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 02:28:28PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Francesca Ciceri (madame...@debian.org): > > > I'm not completely sure about it. > > I mean: they are clearly disturbing and stupid messages, and a lot of > > dangerous trolling (dangerous for the ideas in the messages, not for the > > trolling itself), but on the other hand I think that it's important to > > have those messages visible to all, as a warning and reminder of what > > happened. > > I know that they are really disturbing, but without that in the archive > > I, for example, have never known about that situation. > > > > I don't think that in the second stage they have to be tagged as spam, > > but surely they could be tagged as "inappropriate". > > > > What do you think about it? > > This is really a matter of personal taste. I will tag them as spam but > I understand that others may prefer tagging as inappropriate. > > To explain my position : this person intentionnally spammed the > mailing list with hate messages. He also harrassed several d-w > contributors in private and was "banned" from the mailing list by > listmasters (however, as he was constantly changing origin mail > address, this had no real effect). > > I consider that tagging his "mails" as spam is indeed applying the > list ban.
Spam is unwanted email, and hate mail is certainly unwanted, but I can not really recall ever seeing a 491 scam or other similar emails containting targeted hateful messagaes. So it seems like, to me, there are 'hate' spam and non-'hate' spam where the latter can be deleted without a thought. The former is evidence of a crime but not one that is useful to expose to the general public but not useful to cover-up. So I had an idea: keep an archive of the hate spam and replace the visible archive message with a placeholder that requires someone to ask to see it. This way the crime scene in preserved but the hate is not on-display to average viewers. This is just my own thought and I dont expect it to be adopted. Or maybe the idea can be revised to have merit. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com......| | : :' : The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111211203422.GB31499@horacrux
