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Re: Sergeant at arms: please deal with mars(_dot_)techno(_dot_)cat(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com

2013-10-25 23:19:39
Jorge,

On Oct 25, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
Feed the trolls and they will keep growing, ignore them and they will dry and 
die

In this particular case, the troll in question doesn't need responses to be fed 
-- he doesn't appear to care if anyone responds to his notes.  In the past 20+ 
years he's been spewing oddly capitalized nonsense to various lists and 
websites until he's been banned, ignoring him hasn't caused him to dry and/or 
die.  

In most social situations where an individual is being a bore, most folks I'm 
aware of simply walk away. In the context of mailing lists, this usually 
translates to just unsubscribing. I'll admit being unsure that sacrificing 
potentially useful contributors just so a known disruptive individual can 
continue posting irrelevant drivel is an appropriate course of action.

If you have a commons and one of the users of the commons is peeing all over 
the grass so that the sheep won't eat, do you continue to allow that user entry 
into the commons?

Regards,
-drc

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