Shell policy approved

[Martin Meredith]

On 28/01/11 21:05, John Chiazzese wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 20:42 +0000, Chris Oattes wrote:
>> Surely the time to object is during the 2 month period when it existed as a draft on the wiki. Ikonia has been campaigning for this for far longer, and it has been on several IRCC agendas before it was put up for a draft.
>>
>> Seeker
>>
> +1
> I agree with Seeker on this. Little late now to object, there was more
> then enough time to attend meetings and state your concerns.
>
> I don't see anywhere in the policy that states the ops team is going to
> be actively seeking out shell providers to be banned. IF there is a
> noticeable and constant abuse from users of the shell provider then
> measures will be taken.

Firstly, the mail never hit my inbox regarding the first draft, as 
explained in IRC.  Secondly, it doesn't state that they will actively be 
seeking out, but DOES give them the power to use that as an excuse 
should they, for example, take a disliking to someone.

I quote:-


Any host or network provider that has no Terms of Use policy, has a 
policy that is incompatible with the Ubuntu IRC guidelines, or shows it 
is open for persistent abuse may be denied access to the Ubuntu IRCCore 
channels <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/Scope>.

This is in the pre-amble.  The use of "or" rather than "and" with 
regards to abuse, and the "may be denied" (permissive, rather than 
subjective) allows any op, should they feel like it - to ban someone 
they take a disliking to.
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