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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

Obviously, your expulsion from the Go issue tracker for abusive conduct is a separable issue from the Go module proxy, as you can see from Go project participants reiterating that the offer to exclude you from the refresh list still stands.

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1. We would like to have a more complex discussion than saying "1" or "0" to this specific offer

2. This specific offer is not satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313802

Clearly it was not satisfactory to you, since it was made over 8 months ago, and you didn't take them up on it. I'm objecting here only to the framing you've created that your ouster from the Go issue forum --- which we can see was done with cause --- is what precipitated this situation.

We can behave like adults, ask why it's not satisfactory, and come to a more agreeable mutual solution, or we can blithely offer an incomplete solution, muzzle the other party, and just continue our DDoS.

See, here you just did it again: "muzzle the other party", as if it was causally connected to your disagreement about how the module proxy should work, and not to the abuse you inflicted on members of that community.

I think it's worth taking a step back here to say that IMHO regardless of whether the OP's previous comments justify his expulsion from the issue tracker, having the only other available "DDoS opt-out" mechanism be to email Russ Cox directly is _completely insane_ and unacceptable for an organization of Google's size and funding level. If they're going to ban members from the community (perhaps justifiably so), Google needs to either provide another public place to make one of these requests, or preferably make the DDoS feature opt-in rather than opt-out.

I admitted that my comments about EFAIL -- four years ago now -- were in the wrong, and apologized for them. Unless you're going to argue that this issue should justify consuming 70% of my system's network bandwidth without recourse, move on.

In the interest of not feeding the trolls, I think I can safely stop engaging with you on this thread. Or maybe on any thread -- you and I never seem to have a productive conversation on this website.

> In the interest of not feeding the trolls, I think I can safely stop engaging with you on this thread. Or maybe on any thread -- you and I never seem to have a productive conversation on this website.

HN would be so very much more pleasant with ignore-lists.

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