Listserver shenigans

[torkell]

So there's an interesting little debate going on on a certain forum I frequent.

The gist of it is that member A was banned from the community-run listservers (the official ones having gone 404 a long time ago) for crashing servers. He was originally banned for one month, but that got extended for various reasons to 2 months. The ban officially expired on 30th November last year (2005).

Members B and C run a listserver each. Member C unbanned member A a while back, as per the original agreement. Member B has not, and has expressed no desire to ever do so. There is possible circumstancial evidence of member A continuing to crash servers, however nothing is currently known for certain (and there is also less circumstancial evidence of it being another member).

Given that, who out of members B and C is taking the correct action?

Comments

[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting question. As one who has maintained community servers in the past, I would have to say that B is taking the 'correct' action. Past evidence states that A was causing trouble, and there is evidence to suggest she/he may still be doing so. Until and unless anything comes out to prove that someone else is causing it, and if listservers continue to mysteriously fall over, he/she should remain banned in my opinion.

That said, of course, I'm notorious for my paranoia when it comes to system security and stability.

HTH. HAND.