[CentOS] Bounced email processing

Thu Nov 6 13:58:59 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Wed, November 5, 2014 16:00, Keith Keller wrote:
>
> It's also inappropriate (IMO of course) to intentionally circumvent
> controls which have been implemented to restrict someone from posting to
> the list.

If the posting is a pertinent technical question then I submit that it is
unethical not to circumvent the restriction.  This is a technical forum and if
there is no possibility of said posting being off-topic or intended to be
unpleasant then it should be seen and answered if at all possible.

Banning from a mailing list is just a rather ham-fisted way of saying that the
job of moderating an individual disruptive user is deemed too burdensome. 
And, having moderated lists myself, I can sympathize with that position.  But
if other, un-banned, list members are willing to judiciously moderate said
individual on a case by case basis then I see no difficulty at all.


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