Re: [ga] waste of time

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Such rules are great in principle, provided the participants all have a willingness
to work together and follow the rules.

The problem we have seen this last week has been the result of one person who has
made it his mission in this process to break as many rules as he can.  A rule like
this would end up only hurting those who are honestly participating, and would not
affect the person who started this message.  He would just signup for a new hotmail,
or YahooMail, or iName email account each time and keep posting his drivel.  Or
worse yet, masquerade as one of us and make it appear we posted it (to those not
informed enough to know the regular poster's normal headers).  



On 14-Nov-99 matt hooker wrote:
> This is absurd, the time required to view all these postings is way too 
> much. Furthermore, many of the postings are repetitive or irrelevant, or 
> personal in nature. EVERYONE should be limited to 2 postings to a list per 
> WEEK. This is more than sufficient. If they violate this rule 3 times they 
> are prohibited from posting for a year.
> 
> Matt Hooker  matthooker@hotmail.com
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Weisberg <weisberg@texoma.net>
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] waste of time
> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:56:37 -0600
> 
> R.Gaetano@iaea.org wrote:
> 
>  > David Conrad wrote,
>  >
>  > > The risk of not moderating a list in the face of stupidity is
>  > > that people who
>  > > prefer not to wade through shit to find useful content simply
>  > > unsubscribe.
>  >
> 
> I agree with Roberto, 100%.  The answer is to discuss what you think is
> important and filter the noise.  It works for me.
> 
>  >
>  > >
>  >
>  > David...If it is true that we are having an unacceptable noise/signal 
> ratio
>  > lately,
>  > this is also the fault of all of us who feel responsible for the 
> "signal".
>  >
>  > There are issues being now brought to the GA's attention: the election of 
> a
>  > Chair (which is a first evolutionary step), the discussion on the 
> criteria
>  > for membership and related fees, the ever present issue on the 
> relationship
>  > between the council and the AL, and probably more.
>  >
>  > If we can't do much for lowering the noise level without raising (true or
>  > false) issues of censorship, we can at least improve the ratio by raising
>  > the signal level over the noise ;>).
>  > Please help us doing this with concrete proposals and comments on the 
> issues
>  > above, and on all what you feel relevant to the GA list.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > Roberto
> 
> Thank YOU, Roberto.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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