[PLUG-TALK] banning folks from PLUG mailing list

[(not) Robby Russell]

Brent Rieck typed this on 02/04/2004 03:30 PM:
> Russell Senior wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org> writes:
>>
>> Brent> Can't you guys just add Robby to your killfiles?
>>
>> Actually, no we can't.  We have to monitor his misinformation so that
>> we can correct it.  I don't particularly care about random abuse,
>> since that is obvious to anyone on its face.
> 
> 
> Okay, so don't killfile him if you care about correcting Robby's 
> obviously false information.
> 
>> What if someone started posting insidious messages indicating the PLUG
>> meeting was cancelled, rescheduled, moved to another location, etc?
>> What is the appropriate response to that kind of behavior?  I don't
>> see Robby's "PLUG Announcements" post to be qualitatively different.
> 
> 
> If you've not killfiled him: The appropriate response is to yawn, post a 
> correction, and move on.

This would make sense in a typical mailing list and/or forum, however 
PLUG is a legal entity that has business interests in each thread. Did 
you read the disclaimer at the door? No? Me neither.

> If you have killfiled him: there's probably somebody else who hasn't yet 
> and will post a correction or question, allowing things to resolve 
> themselves.
> 

There is also the 3rd option: Reasonably intelligent people should see 
that such post was completely sarcastic and if they believed it...well, 
then again, we're all victims of misinformation as it is.

> What's the worst that will happen?  Somebody misses a PLUG meeting?

The horror!

-Robby