[OpenID] Mailing List Policies

[Dick Hardt]

Abusive behaviour on a mail list is not new. AtomPub had some interesting "personalities" involved.

I'm not proposing that abusive behaviour is acceptable.

I'm suggesting that abusive behaviour is subjective, and that education and guiding the conversation to constructive ends is preferred to ejecting someone from the community.

-- Dick

On 2009-11-29, at 8:25 PM, David Recordon wrote:

> I don't know the specifics, but it sounds like the AtomPub working group dealt with similar issues.  http://friendfeed.com/dewitt/818a5c22/question-how-much-name-calling-personal-slurs
> 
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave
> 
> In all your time on IETF lists, how many times have you seen a participant banned from a list?
> 
> -- Dick
> 
> On 2009-11-29, at 8:09 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
> 
> > The link I sent earlier:
> >
> >   <http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html>
> >
> > points to the IETF's enforcements procedures.
> >
> > d/
> >
> > Chris Messina wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Dave CROCKER <dhc2 at dcrocker.net <mailto:dhc2 at dcrocker.net>> wrote:
> >>    Chris Messina wrote:
> >>        I've gone ahead and adapted the microformats policy to our own:
> >>    It doesn't say anything about enforcement rules.  What are the
> >>    procedures for determining whether someone has violated the policy,
> >>    and what are the consequences of such an assessment?
> >> Do you have proposals on what they should be?
> >> Generally I think it's up to the discretion of the list owners/admins to make such decisions. If any decisions made are deemed unreasonable, I think they'll have the community on their case about it (as is the present situation).
> >> I don't know of any suitable alternative, given that we're talking about a mailing list.
> >> Chris --
> >> Chris Messina
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> >
> > --
> >
> >  Dave Crocker
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