In light of recent events I would support the creation of a new list dedicated to creating
policy for mailing lists, provided it was open to any participant and itself was not
moderated.
Any moderated list, dedicated to discussing moderation, is open to abuse by any selected
moderators.? I'm on several completely unmoderated lists and we in general have very
little problem with things like spam or whatever horrors are supposed to accompany the
lack of moderators.? The lists I'm on with moderators constantly have problems mostly
from the moderators themselves interferring where they should just leave things alone.
The moderation list must have the power to set policy and enjoin moderators to follow that
policy without allowing any moderators to put themselves in the position of complainant,
prosecutor, jury, judge, bailiff and jailer as the case is today.? No free society can
function in a system where a single person can decide the fate of another person
entirely.? It's abhorrent to the principles upon which all of western society is
based.
Will Johnson
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