Re: signal-to-noise on d-d-l

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 04:53, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> PLEASE let's not use a technical solution to a social problem. If someone is
> posting regularly to a major project list, and only providing useless noise,
> TELL THEM privately, and if they persist, TELL THEM publically.

	Yeah, this is the only way to solve the problem IMHO.

> > * we make sure the moderators are active- I volunteer myself for this,
> > since I read all the crap anyway, so it can't really make my life worse,
> > per se, and hopefully it'll make it better for others.
> 
> Moderators are good generally.

	I've always taken the approach that as list admin I'm more of a spam
filter than anything else. I've never liked rejecting a mail through
mailman with "that's not on topic!" - I'd much rather the list do it as
a whole (and on the list), rather than a random few people doing it
privately based on their definition of "on topic".

Cheers,
Mark.