On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:23:50AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 8/13/02 10:18 AM, "Aditya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > gmane gives people read-only access using a different transport -- do you, or > > do you wish to restrict read-access to web-based mailing list archives? > > Actually, yes. Here's why. > > Someone on my list decides to "go troll". I kick him off my list. He decides > to get stupid about it, so he starts reading the archives and sending > abusive responses privately. I blackhole his IP address from my archives.
what do you do if they switch to using a different IP address? wouldn't "email address obfuscation" be an easier first-step? > So now he simply signs up for gmane and continues abusing my users via > private email by reading the archives on gmane. What's my option? Cutting > gmane off? I've lost control of being able to police my own list. so does the "email address obfuscation" approach adopted by gmane not help in this case? > > You always have the option of asking gmane not to "carry" your mailing list, > > Well, unfortunately, the first I found out about this was when I had to ask > them to StOP carrying them, because they'd started without asking first, > but... yeah, that was a M.O. that was a bit too trusting, and gmane has become more careful about that so hopefully such occurances should be rare. Adi
