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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:02:44 +0200
From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: [NOVICE] How to Recover iPhone Contacts You Lost
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On 04/26/2013 06:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> On 04/26/2013 08:09 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> 
>>>> This user appears to have subscribed to the novice list today, and
>>>> since their first and only message is spam, I have removed them.
>>>
>>> For the record, I summarily unregister any address which I notice sends
>>> spam, regardless of how long they have been subscribed for, and
>>> regardless of previous posting habits.  (However, I don't subscribe to
>>> pgsql-novice so I didn't see this particular one.)
>>>
>>> (Unregistering an address unsubscribes it from all lists and from
>>> Majordomo's global roster.)
>>
>> If you did that to me after some %$^£$%@^ had used my email address to
>> send spam, I would be extremely pissed off at you as I'd have to
>> resubscribe and reconfigure all the mailing lists I use, and might
>> miss messages in threads I was participating in. We absolutely should
>> be looking at posting history before unsubscribing anyone.
> 
> I would call for your removal as a moderator. This isn't a fascist
> regime here. Sometimes sh*t happens and we need to account for that.

I don't think wording like that is appropriate here.
 I do agree that unsubscribing random addresses without any validation
is what we should do and I'm pretty sure it is not what alvaro does, but
calling this a "fascist regime" without any proof and further details
seems way too much for my taste.


Stefan


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