On Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:09:44 PM UTC-5, Zero Piraeus wrote: > Note: I drafted a version of this post earlier today. I had been waiting > to see whether Nikos succeeded in baiting the list into yet another > round of unpleasantness before sending it, because I didn't want to > worsen the situation, but at this point things are completely out of > hand, and even what looks like a consensus attempt to ignore Nikos out > of existence is > > a) failing: I count eighteen emails so far today. > > b) going to lead casual visitors to assume either that we ignore > requests for help or that the list is Nikos' personal echo chamber. > > At this point I consider Nikos' actions a conscious attack on the list. > There is simply no way, after the many times he's been told not to > repost, that this is anything other than a direct and deliberate attempt > to annoy as many people as he can. > > That being the case, I'd like to know whether there are technical > measures that can be taken to prevent him from posting here. > > I understand that the mail/news gateway might complicate that, and that > any measures taken could be bypassed by someone with sufficient skill. I > suspect that in this particular case the latter issue is less relevant > than it might otherwise be. > > I don't believe that killfiles are a sufficient response in this > situation. > > I can, of course, stop Nikos' posts reaching me, and without too much > hassle also stop replies to his posts reaching me. He would, however, > continue to pollute the list in public, and his posts, whether replied > to or not at the volume he's now sending them, would continue to damage > the reputation of the list and, ultimately, I think possibly kill it. > > This is a last-ditch request, and not one I particularly expect to > succeed, but I honestly can't stand to watch this happen to python-list > for very much longer, and am very close to unsubscribing after six years > as an admittedly not very active member. > > -[]z.
Nikos's behavior has been escalating, and is particularly bad today. But I'd like to point out that everyone else's has been better than ever: the latest threads have been ignored. We have not been descending into anger and vitriol. I can't say what will happen in the future, but I would expect an exasperated help vampire to behave precisely this way as the counter-measures (ignoring) because more effective. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
