On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: > I support this, a policy can be put in place by the admins over this > DL. Putting the name in a webpage (like a box of shame) also kind of > discourages people to post in and join in.
How exactly does putting your name on a page if you insist on giving your password away to an untrusted site prevent you from joining and participating in a technical mailing list? The two are completely unrelated. Site/address blacklists don't work, since there are so many sites nowadays that ask you for your password it's impossible to keep track of them. On the other hand, if someone's volunteering to make such a comprehensive blacklist AND maintain it on a regular basis, I'm sure the list admin(s) can be persuaded to use those. The Wiki page is not an official mailing list policy or an official ILUGD initiative. It's a user initiative, and updated by users. If your name is on that page and you don't want it there, all you need to do is sign up on the Wiki (it's free and automatic), edit the page and delete your name from there -- not exactly rocket science. Finally, I'd be glad if someone took on the task of educating every Internet user on how foolish and insecure it is to give your password away to any site that asks for it. Until that is done, however, shame works as an excellent motivation to learn really fast. Since that Wiki page was started, the number of offences on this mailing list has gone down by 64.729% (create your own statistics if you don't like mine :) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
