[Foundation-l] Use of moderation

[Ray Saintonge]

Henning Schlottmann wrote:
> Mailing lists are push media and they are one stop: the new posts come
> to my own mail folders automatically. Their look and feel is always the
> same: that of my mail program (or web mail operator). Browsing through
> "your" web boards in the morning takes much, much more time than with
> appropriately processes mailing lists.
>
> Moderation and s/n ration: If you read mailing lists as (pseudo)
> newsgroups, which is of course the recommended way of access, every
> reader has the most comfortable options for filtering and scoring. Web
> boards have central, mailing lists individual moderation. You, the
> reader, can filter authors, topics, threads or whatever you want or
> don't want to read. That gives you autonomy and responsibility.
>
> The only real advantage of web boards is that they run in a browser and
> everyone thinks they can use them. Processing and reading mailing lists
> is much more comfortable, but obviously not anyone knows how to do that
> anymore.

Seems to me that the mailing list is working just fine, despite a few 
people who complain far too much about the volume of traffic, or about 
the occasional tendency to irrelevant comments.  They need to exercise a 
little more patience and tolerance.  The situation is a classic case of 
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."

Ec