[Foundation-l] Use of moderation

[Delirium]

Austin Hair wrote:
> In Buenos Aires I had multiple people ask (even practically beg) me to
> do something about foundation-l.  One person said "fucking moderate
> foundation-l, already!"—to which I explained why I didn't think that
> moderating individuals was a solution, but had to admit that I didn't
> really have a better one.

Maybe I'm unusual in treating large mailing lists as if they were 
FidoNet or Usenet discussion forums, but the idea of people being 
bothered by long threads they don't care about, individuals whose posts 
they don't like, etc., is strange to me. Isn't that easily handled on 
the client side? Killfile individual posters, delete/filter entire 
threads, etc. Do most people use clients where that's unreasonably 
difficult?

It does require *some* community standards to enable it. For example, it 
really helps the client-side filtering if people choose meaningful 
subject lines, and change subject lines when threads have drifted to new 
topics. But it's a fairly minimal set of things that have to be 
centrally enforced. It certainly seems easier than trying to come up 
with a centrally enforced set of standards that will simultaneously make 
everyone happy!

-Mark