On 2018-07-17, Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote: > On 2018-07-16 01:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> Do you have any reason to believe the message at the top of the >> thread purporting to ban users was genuinely from the moderators? >> Because there are obvious reasons to believe otherwise. > > Care to elaborate?
Anyone can trivially forge a message from anyone, so there is no reason to believe the message is genuine. Reasons to believe it is not genuine include the poor formatting, poorly-written content, inconsistent and insulting way the 'banned users' are referred to, and the fact that out of the three people it purports to ban, one was apparently already banned and another appears not to be a current poster anyway. If it is a genuine message from the moderators then they really need to improve their policy to give clear warnings to people before they are banned, and they need to PGP-sign official messages so that they can be recognised. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
