Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:30:39 -0400:
> My other item (you knew there'd be at least one more :) is something I > brought up on irc yesterday, namely (if its feasible with infra) > downgrading a subscription to read-only mode rather than outright > banning/suspending a user from a mailing list. They would retain the > right to receive the mail, just not comment for a short period (and > hopefully cooler heads will prevail, yada, etc.). As an alternative if read-only mode is too much trouble for infra (and having not yet read the proposal), the list is carried by gmane.org, and can be viewed there as as a newsgroup or via HTTP by anyone, subscribed or not. Thus, read-only mail mode shouldn't be required, and it would be impossible (without canceling gmane's access, but that's an important community resource as an archive often linked to when referring to old threads) to ban access entirely in any case. Perhaps if infra doesn't want to hassle read-only mode and prefers a full mail ban, mention could be made of gmane for those who wish to continue read-only access. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
