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Bradley D. Thornton Bradley at NorthTech.US
Thu Mar 4 22:13:07 GMT 2021
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On 3/4/2021 1:51 PM, Ben wrote:
As an additional matter to consider, in case some members of the mailing
list are not aware (although most probably are), Petite Abeille is not a
person's name, but it means "little bee" in French. I got the impression
this name was chosen deliberately for trolling, to be anonymous and
convey the message that this is a disruptive creature buzzing around and
poking us with its stinger.
Wow, Three years of French at UCSD and I didn't make that connection. Ifiltered that user a long time ago when it became apparent that I didn'tfind anything constructive coming from the account, for me personally.I typically do that with serial Top-Posters too, I find that even moreannoying and detest having to continually scroll up/down/up/down just tofigure out what's being conveyed.
Also, some people might not be aware, but this mailing list was not
supposed to allow Gmail addresses, but a special exception was made for
people interested in Gemini to be allowed to use it. It was thought this
is for the benefit of the community. However, perhaps we've also
unwittingly opened up the list to abuse by throw-away e-mail accounts?
I didn't realize that DEAs were permitted now. I still block them frompurchasing many services from me - Google is the great facilitator oflegitimized Spam.
Sean's deployment of tracking issues via Gitlab was a great idea toavoid noise while working, and effectively creates a WG (working group)that can focus on the matters at hand.
Personally, I would have probably chosen tildegit, since many of themajor contributors are homed in that community, or perhaps Codeberg, oreven sr.ht (Yeah pls don't flame me for that - it's a good service), butGitlab works and isn't GitHub so that's good.
Thanks for that info Ben.
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