Netiquette

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On Saturday, November 13th, 2021 at 4:11 PM, Tapani Tarvainen 
<bash@tapanitarvainen.fi> wrote:

> > funny face [...] nutcases [...] pussy [...]
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> I really dislike that kind of language, especially on a technical list
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> like this. Abusive language, name-calling, ad hominem attacks etc
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> really should have no place here.
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> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:41:23AM -0500, Greg Wooledge (greg@wooledge.org) 
> wrote:
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> > How do we stop them from doing this? Is there any way?
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> Some. But nothing easy.
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> > Do we need to permanently block protonmail? That seems like overkill,
> >
> > with possible fallout that we'd want to avoid.
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> It would be overkill. It might not even help much, as there are lots
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> of other email providers people could switch to.
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> The only effective way to keep abusive language out of the list would
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> be moderating it. However, finding someone willing to spend their time
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> on that (and dealing with the inevitable abuse directed at themselves,
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> claims of sensorship &c) would not be easy, I'm afraid.
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> It could be made a bit easier by making it selective: e.g., set
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> moderation bit on for all new users and only turning it off after the
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> subscriber has sent some reasonable number of non-abusive messages.
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> (Mailman2 has a feature just for this, default_member_moderation.)
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> Or, maybe do that selectively for mail providers that have a history
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> of abusive users. (Automating this would take some effort.)
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> A theoretical alternative would be an automated filtering system that
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> either rejects or flags for moderation messages that appear to contain
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> abusive language. Doing that well enough that it'd be less work than
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> simply moderating everything would not be exactly trivial, however.

The usual goon squad ganging up