In reviewing the administrative settings, I see signs that someone might have powerfully annoyed BALUG admins, and I'm curious if anyone remembers the history.
This guy's name is first name Rick, second name that I'm writing with spaces inserted so he won't find this discussion if ego-searching his own name: 'De Gae tano'. (Remove the space characters.) His e-mail address is or was rickde gae tano@yahoo.com. (Remove spaces. Same reason.)
What I'm talking about is: 'rickde gae tano@yahoo.com' is the sole address listed as banned from subscribing to balug-admin, and also the sole address whose postings will be held for moderation on balug-admin. I removed the first ban, but am keeping the 'hold for moderation' one while asking if anyone remembers what this is about.
Mailman ban & moderation rosters, in my experience, accumulate some entries by accident, or by overquick admin action. It's useful to prune them occasionally.
balug-talk has seven addresses banned from membership for what seem like antispam reasons. I'm going to remove those; I doubt they're useful:
fred@ugramail.ru info@t-shirts.com.hk loryta11@yahoo.com sayarei111@yahoo.fr shiori_f851@yahoo.com.ar zonal_info1@yahoo.co.uk zonal_info@yahoo.co.uk
(Gone.)
Also on balug-talk, Rick D.'s address is the sole address whose postings would be held for moderation. I'm leaving that while waiting to hear why.
Basically, was Rick D. some sort of epic pain? What kinda pain? I'm really curious. (Tell me offlist if that's useful.)
There's an IT consultant in Burlingame of that name.