It was brought to my attention that someone was repeatedly using new emails to sign up to, and post to, a gentoo mailing list, but doing so in violation of a ban from said list. The response was to lock the list down with a whitelist, which caused inconveninence to innocent users. Today's council meeting, it was suggested that I contact trustees to handle the issue. I concur, on grounds that the mailing lists in question are probably hosted on infra managed hardware owned or managed by the foundation. My proposal is: Anyone who evades a ban on a gentoo mailing list be subject to consequences imposed by the foundation, on grounds that breaching the ban is a misuse of foundation property if the list is hosted on infra. Possible consequences include but are not limited to: * A formal reprimand from the foundation/trustees to the ban evader citing misuse of foundation property * A cease and desist notice sent to the ban evader * Potential legal action on grounds of trespassing To clarify I'm not asking the foundation to actually police the mailing lists themelves (except perhaps for -nfp). However, if the consequences imposed by comrel/proctors etc are blatantly defied, that's another issue. What I am asking for is for the foundation to escalate as needed when consequences imposed by comrel etc are blatantly defied in cases where the medium in question is hosted on foundation property. Reproducible: Always
In short, I've reviewed this request and I don't think we should do any of the things you have suggested. Generally speaking legal remedies are expensive and time consuming. If we thought legal remedies would produce results we would use them. -A
