>3) If there's a long discussion between two people, and it's slightly off
>topic, feel free to move it to a new page, and replace it with a link
to the
>new page (a sub page of one of the involved parties is a good idea.)
If there's a long discussion between two people that is slightly
off-topic, I would hope that someone steps in and asks them politely
(and perhaps firmly, if necessary) to continue it by private e-mail.
I don't expect this to happen; and I bring it up only because of my
experience on various listservs, one of which involved a diehard
capitalist and a diehard technocratist: the two of them would bat
points back and forth endlessly, rebutting but not considering, in the
middle of a listserv that was ostensibly dedicated to sustainable
living. After several months, about of a third of the people had
filtered their messages to delete anything with the word "technocracy"
in the subject and at least another third had left the list. The two
both balked at the suggestion that they continue the mess privately,
seeming to think it a violation of their 1st amendment rights not to
be able to hog donated bandwidth with chatter that 2 people out of 300
wanted to hear. I hope that the issue never comes up on wikipedia. :-)
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