On Wed 04 Aug 2021 at 23:30:45 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:43:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 04 Aug 2021 at 22:01:18 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > Problems? > > > ========= > > > > > > Complaints about inappropriate behaviour should be referred to the > > > Debian Community Team <commun...@debian.org>. > > > > > > Inappropriate behaviour on the list may lead to warnings; repeated bad > > > behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders. > > > > I have never known a tempory ban being applied to a user. Is this a > > recent change in Listmaster policy? > > > > -- > > Brian. > > > > I _think_ there have been instances of someone being banned for a week or a > month - I think indefinite bans were called out as being inappropriate in > one case. I'd have to defer to those with more patience to dig through > Debian mailing list archives.
Basically - you do not know. Why say what you did, then? > I do remember one instance - a very long time ago - where someone was > banned after two posts or thereabouts - a Finnish neo-Nazi, I think, > who abused the lists with political ranting. Fair enough. I'll not ask for a link to the decision. > Listmasters' discretion is always the final arbiter. Indeed. They apply the lump hammer. -- Brian.