readline trick needed

[Joshua Landau]

On 13 October 2012 22:44, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Joshua Landau
> <joshua.landau.ws at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With two irritants (including 88888), is it not advisable that
> python-list
> > gets an admin to block these accounts? Even if it does nothing more than
> > slow them, that's something.
>
> That's what killfiles are for. You have two options:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
> http://bofh.ch/bofh/bsmh2.html
>
> The first option is not perfect, as you'll still see replies that
> quote such people's posts. The second has a few issues with local law
> enforcement, but other than that, is a very effective means of
> avoiding seeing their posts.


The first's no good for protecting the newbies though. If *troll* flames *
newbie*, then I want to be able to assure *newbie* that he's not done
anything wrong or stupid.

The second is a bit better, definitely, but what I'm wanting is to delegate
these tasks to python-list's admins. I'm lazy, see.
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