[Foundation-l] Use of moderation

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:
> 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!
>   
Yes, and maybe the solution would be a link to a set of instructions 
about how to more effectively manage one's mailing lists.

Ec