autocanceller for inappropriate crossposts ?

[Ian Jackson]

Recently there were a couple of messages in gnu.misc.discuss which
were not very nice. And, they weren't really anything useful.

An obvious way to spot them is crossposts to general politics
newsgroups. I can see no likelihood that any such crossposted article
would be of any value.

Even when there are groups with a legitimate crossover of topics, the
atmosphere in general discussion groups is so toxic, and so unaligned
with the GNU Project's goals and values, that nothing of value will
come of such conversations. They only serve to pollute our spaces.

Do we have any mechanism for dealing with this problem ?

If not, I would like to suggest some combination of:

* Decide on some crossposting rules for gnu.*
* Promulgate suitable cleanfeed rules
* Run one or more instances of a cancelbot

And

* Promulgate an AUP
* Send complaints to origin sites when breaches occur
* If a site does not act on complaints, have the GNU Project make
a single recommendation to exclude that site from gnu.*

As for crossposting rules, probably a keyword-based blacklist is the
right approach. In glob patterns, we should probably ditch all
crossposts to
*politics*
*advocacy*
talk.*

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