On 08/09/2014 18:06, Dave Newton wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> [...] banned from the Tomcat users mailing list [...] > > > Is there official Apache precedence for this? I tried that on the S2 list > and it didn't take.
Technically, unsub them from user@ and sub them to user-deny@. If that doesn't work, contact infra. There isn't an official position on how to handle this sort of issue as far as I know. It is left to the community to decide. I've seen it happen a few times. In each case the banned person ignored repeated requests both privately and publicly to correct their behaviour, they were warned would would happen if they continued, they continued so the community banned them. In theory you could have a moderator get all dictatorial and start banning people for trivial stuff. In that case I'd expect the community to step in and deal with the moderator. Unless the community got very disfunctional, I don't see the board getting involved at all. I will say in all the cases I am aware of the project did include a note in their next board report as it was viewed as an unusual enough action to highlight to the board. The board response in all cases was "Fine. Carry on." If you have a determined troll then blocking them from the mailing list is unlikely to be effective. On the other hand, blocking an idiot takes less effort than creating a new e-mail account and subscribing to the mailing list so that is a game I'm happy to play if necessary. HTH, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
