Clearing the Ban List

[Jussi Kekkonen]

On 17 August 2011 07:33, Corey Quinn <corey at sequestered.net> wrote:
> Now that eir seems to be working well, do we want to clear out the (crufty!) ban and quiet lists?
>
> I think that declaring a "ban list amnesty" would be a very Ubuntu-like thing to do, remove a number of IP bans that probably don't match anything we'd care about anymore, and enable any bans that should have been there to be re-added relatively quickly-- only this time with better tracking around them.
>
> Thoughts?  Comments?  Threats of bodily harm if anyone does a /msg chancery clear #ubuntu BANS?
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I'd say better not mass-remove all bans: this has known to trigger
increased unwanted activity when the word about the banlist clear
spreads. So I would rather have organised "banlist clearance
theme-evening" or something when we go thru all inadequately commented
bans etc. And then remove them in phases?`I believe we discussed about
this on IRC some time ago, but forgot already other points. (:

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Jussi Kekkonen, Tm_T
  Ubuntu/KDE developer  tmt at ubuntu.com