On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 9:36 AM -0700 2004/05/05, Bill Moseley wrote:
I run a few lists where we have trollers and trouble makers. Unsubscribing or moderating them doesn't help because they re-subscribe with a new email address. Moderation of subscriptions and posts is not practical on some lists.
Even if you required approval for the subscriptions, they'd still find a way to get through. You have to moderate each and every post, at least for those subscribers who are causing problems.
When I turned on moderation they resubscribed. So I'd need to moderate everyone. White listing would help on smaller lists, I suppose.
Both banning and moderation are obvious to the sender.
These people just post to get a reaction out of other list members. The best solution is to have people ignore them, but that's hard on a list that is constantly changing. So, this mode would allow a way for the list owner to enforce people to ignore the posts.
They would notice that they're not getting a reaction and re-subscribe under another name. You can't stop them.
I agree, that's true for some. It would slow the problem down in some cases, though. On one smaller list we managed to stop the behavior by asking everyone to not respond. So it does help in some cases.
No, not an answer. It would just be another tool. Like spam filtering -- it's nowhere perfect, but I still use filtering as it helps reduce the problem.
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for Mailman!
-- Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org