I honestly don't understand your position, but I get the sense that you are suggesting Satoshi wouldn't be welcome to return if he wanted to be active in development again? Warren On Aug 17, 2015 1:38 PM, "Oliver Egginger" wrote: > Am 17.08.2015 um 21:03 schrieb Warren Togami Jr.: > > This bitcoin-dev list restarted with an empty subscriber list on June > > 21st, 2015. So whoever posted from satoshi@vistomail.com > > subscribed and verified the address > > recently. Do you propose that we manually approve new subscribers to > > prevent these kind of "abuses" as you put it? > > I would simply block the creators old email addresses. Easy with > Mailman. I thought that would be a good and easy approach, but maybe I'm > wrong. > > Some believes it is possible that the email could be genuine. Some say > that only the content is important. I have closely followed. An > interesting discussion. Thank you all so far. > > But let's say the poster would be the real Satoshi. Would we discuss his > posting if he would not claim to be Satoshi? There are a lot of smart > people on this list, which publish occasionally quite useful ideas. But > much of this is hardly the subject of greater discussion. Especially not > when it comes to the blocksize. On this subject almost everything has > been already said. But not yet by everyone. Especially not by Satoshi. > > Satoshi would have a decisive influence on the community. I'm sure. To > say it does not matter who's talking is maybe genteelly but a little bit > remote from everyday life. Or not? Satoshi is the creator. What he says > is in the newspaper and is perceived by all. If he says it's okay to do > nothing as long as we stand together, then people have the courage to do > maybe something dangerous or something wrong. Then people only follow > their hearts. Otherwise they follow their fear. It is a paradox of the > human nature that some type of Dictatorship can make you free. I say > some type, not any type. Enough said. > > - oliver > >