[WikiEN-l] Mailman software (was Re: Who's moderated?)

[K P]

On 9/8/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Armed Blowfish wrote:
> > On 08/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not archiving would hamper the utility of the list to the project.
> >> Remember that this is a work list for a particular project; having old
> >> messages in an official, referable place is way too useful in
> >> practice. There is no reason I can see that is helpful to the project
> >> to stop archiving.
> >>
> > Next option:
> > 'Would it be better to let individual users decide whether
> > or not they want their messages archived?  If a patch
> > were written to grant this capability, would it be used?'
> > (quoting self from earlier)
> Having a patchwork of archived and non-archived material would produce
> silly results.  If you opted out, just imagine how meaningless the
> flames that you have received would be without the original context. ;-)
>
> Ec
>
A mailing list that serves a purpose to discuss issues of a public
site, such as Wikipedia is, should always be straight archived.
Allowing opt out and other options gives moderators an Orwellian
option that I can't see any point in.

KP