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[irenezerafa]

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On Saturday, November 13th, 2021 at 4:25 PM, irenezerafa 
<irenezerafa@protonmail.com> wrote:

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> On Saturday, November 13th, 2021 at 4:11 PM, Tapani Tarvainen 
> bash@tapanitarvainen.fi wrote:
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> > > Do we need to permanently block protonmail? That seems like overkill,
> > > with possible fallout that we'd want to avoid.

> > It would be overkill. It might not even help much, as there are lots
> > of other email providers people could switch to.

> > The only effective way to keep abusive language out of the list would
> > be moderating it. However, finding someone willing to spend their time
> > on that (and dealing with the inevitable abuse directed at themselves,
> > claims of censorship &c) would not be easy, I'm afraid.

> > A theoretical alternative would be an automated filtering system that
> > either rejects or flags for moderation messages that appear to contain
> > abusive language. Doing that well enough that it'd be less work than
> > simply moderating everything would not be exactly trivial, however.
>
> The usual goon squad ganging up

What is abusive is the dismissive and rude attitude to newcomers in the mailing 
list.
Yet expecting them to be nice about it!