Agreed! The list owner should make the rules, and has the option of enforcing
them. It's his list, after all. Participants in the list should be required to
follow the rules absolutely and even the tiniest infraction on these rules shall
disqualify the violator from any further participation, i.e. posting to the
list, for a specified period, say, seven years. He/she can still receive the
list, can still communicate with other participants, but, for that specified
period, posts from that violator will not be made part of the list.
That way we can avoid (1) inappropriate language, (2) promotion of current
commercial activities, (3) personal attacks, and trolliing for them as well.
I doubt anyone will disagree that it would be desirable that topics be adhered
to and that persons posting to a thread with subject matter that has changed
from that thread will be wise to change the subject line to reflect changes in
content.
Nevertheless, the list owner should be the one to make and enforce the rules.
The safest way to do that, however, is to establish a set of rigorously
enforcible criteria that can be automatically parsed, and start with those.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST -- a vote in favor of limited moderation
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Steve Robertson wrote:
>
> > It's pretty simle really:
> >
> > 1.) The list "owner" should make rule(s) about how the list is run.
> >
> > 2.) Anyone that wants to participate in the list must follow the rules.
>
> And anyone who breaks the rules, no matter how slight, is IMMERSED IN
> MOLTEN IRON!!!
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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>
>
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 11:55:28 BST