Subj : RE: QWK/BW Packet Twitlist
To   : Blue White
From : Al
Date : Tue Aug 16 2022 05:50 pm

> Let's say you moderate an FTN echo.  You have a user, let's call tehm
> Bee Felfaso, who posts off-topic messages that include references to
> human genetalia, bodily fluids, excrement, and other things.  You as
> the moderator ask Bee to quit posting such nonsense in your echo.
> Bee responds that it is "freedom of speech" and that, since it is an
> FTN echo, you cannot moderate them.

As it says in the default twitlist.cfg the intention is that if your BBS is being harassed by a specific person you will be able to filter that person.

I have never used that feature but I think there may be cases where it will do what needs to be done.

But that is not what you are describing. This user is annoying to you and you could put them in a twitlist in your reader. If you were to disrupt the flow of mail in the network some might call that excessively annoying.

If you are a one person BBS and not feeding others I see no problem, but on a multiuser BBS feeding others I would find another solution.

> The Synchronet twitlist may not prevent their filth from
> proliferating to all other BBSes, but it will keep it off of your
> board and off of any board that gets their feed from you.

> So, you can at least partially moderate them.  :)

I agree it's not easy to moderate today, but be moderate while moderating. :)

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