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Posted Dec 7, 2006 10:49 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: LWN forums by dion
Parent article: LWN forums

You'd probably want to send such an email exponentially less often as the number of people plonking you goes up, or do it only at the end of the day or something: otherwise a new troll will get mailbombed with vast numbers of notices of emplonking.

(It might be easier just to note the number of people plonking you on the account details...)

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Posted Dec 7, 2006 18:51 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

Quite.

Perhaps plonkination by more than n subscribers should mean revokation of all posts and the membership, if any.

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Posted Dec 7, 2006 23:33 UTC (Thu) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link]

Care required.

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Posted Dec 8, 2006 0:50 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Very much so. That's open to trivial abuse, and also brings financial
matters into the picture (and thus legal liability).

I'd say don't do this. Revocation should be a last-ditch thing that only
users with six-letter usernames with the md5sum
96239ee6ecfcc1fd9c1add5258339813 should be allowed to do ;)

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Posted Dec 8, 2006 2:04 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

I think you meant "echo -n corbet | md5sum" :)

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Posted Dec 8, 2006 12:15 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That would be far too obvious. :)