On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Hamish MacEwan wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:07 +1200, Donald Neal wrote:
Comments on that plan to the list, please. If it seems to me necessary to implement it I plan to put it to a vote as a set of additions to the AUP. When that might happen depends on postings.
I would rather make my own arrangements to filter material from the list, and would appreciate assistance with a procmail recipe template to remove such postings.
unfortunately the act of filtering does not solve the problem. i know this well and so does jeff. example - you filter me out - or jeff - or whomever it may be you choose to filter - then some third party begins the drivel about jeff williams. well - you end up on the receiving end of the drivil from the third parties. in most cases filtering ends up causing confusion. you would essentially have to filter out everyone who is speaking about jeff williams - and that in my opinion is counter productive. i am all for the list administrator managing discussions with a heavy hand and nipping the problem early before it gets out of hand. a list like this is easy to manage. it is for technical discussions - yada yada yada. as soon as it slips into personality - bingo you have a problem. unfortunately the list administrator ends up with extra work - but the list benefits by remaining topical. another major consideration is the list archives. if the list administrator does not make every effort to keep the list topical, the archives end up suffering. you get volumns of junk mixed in with topical material - and that turns people off when they visit. so these are my reason why i think a heavy hand is needed here from time to time. 1) the historical integrety of the nznog archives - and 2) real time conversations on topical issues. regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot-god.com/ The dot.GOD Registry, Limited The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog