Developers of Sympa

[Soji Ikeda <address@concealed>]

Hi AlexandreFranke,

2018/08/19 1:12、Alexandre Franke <address@concealed>のメール:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:12 PM Quentin Gliech
> <address@concealed> wrote:
>> Banning spammers wont do anything because they usually don't reuse their
>> nicks and they change hostnames regularly.
> 
> Indeed. FWIW on GIMPNet the network operators have banned a whole
> range of IP and that was quite effective, but it had the side effect
> that a few real people got banned as well as they were running their
> bouncer off the same Google compute thing as the spammers come from.
> 
>> Instead, I'd suggest to prevent unregistered users to talk (+q $~a),
>> which turned to be quite effective in other channels I'm in.
> 
> That can alienate a non trivial amount of people too. It would work
> but have a side effect similar to the range ban described above.
> 
>> See https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201808/fighting_spam_on_freenode.html
> 
> The solution described as day 3 in Julien’s comment seems to be a good
> compromise. Let’s implement that one.

It looks good, but anyway, ops flags are needed by regular members, because of
reasons I wrote, and to see “unvoiced” people (due to +z), don’t they?

Regards,

— Soji

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