Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Ean Schuessler wrote: > Can we just generate that procmail file or at least the section in > question? Not easily, no. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "Do you need [...] [t]ools? Stuff?" "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomi

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
Can we just generate that procmail file or at least the section in question? We can take this to private email if you like and blog about next steps and or progress. - "Don Armstrong" wrote: > There isn't any. You write procmail in the correct configuration file > to add a ban. You remove pr

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Ean Schuessler wrote: > Obviously the parties responsible for empowering me to do this are on > this list because they would ban me if I called them mean names. > Responsible parties, please let me know where to start reading the > code for the existing ban process. There isn'

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Russ Allbery" wrote: > The actual code may be extremely simple, only two or three lines. It's > getting the right lines in the right place in a way that works for the > people who are doing the day-to-day work that's the hard part. I hereby do solemnly volunteer to write an "coc unban [AD

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ean Schuessler writes: > - "Charles Plessy" wrote: >> I guess that the story is simpler than this: time-limited bans do not >> seem to be supported natively in Debian's mailing list engine >> (SmartList), so if one wants to see our listmasters use time-limited >> bans more often, then somebo

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "Charles Plessy" wrote: > I guess that the story is simpler than this: time-limited bans do not seem to > be supported natively in Debian's mailing list engine (SmartList), so if one > wants to see our listmasters use time-limited bans more often, then somebody > has to spend time to implem

Re: Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:21:41AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian > GNU/Linux, its too heavy. Rewrite this Operating System in C language and > make it smaller than one GB. Thanks. > > > John Smith John, This is probably off topic

Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux,

2014-09-19 Thread John Smith
Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux, its too heavy. Rewrite this Operating System in C language and make it smaller than one GB. Just distribute one ISO file instead of so many torrents and make it easy for down-loaders. Thanks. John Smith

Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux

2014-09-19 Thread John Smith
Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux, its too heavy. Rewrite this Operating System in C language and make it smaller than one GB. Thanks. John Smith

Re: CoC / procedural abuse

2014-09-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: > Also, the concept of lifting bans only on demand creates a black list as a > byproduct, and it is strange to imagine such a list in 10 years containing > random people who happened to have misbehaved some time ago, of whom we had no > news since, but who