[WikiEN-l] Mailing list policy

[wjhonson at aol.com]

In light of recent events I would support the creation of a new list dedicated to creating policy for mailing lists, provided it was open to any participant and itself was not moderated.

Any moderated list, dedicated to discussing moderation, is open to abuse by any selected moderators.? I'm on several completely unmoderated lists and we in general have very little problem with things like spam or whatever horrors are supposed to accompany the lack of moderators.? The lists I'm on with moderators constantly have problems mostly from the moderators themselves interferring where they should just leave things alone.

The moderation list must have the power to set policy and enjoin moderators to follow that policy without allowing any moderators to put themselves in the position of complainant, prosecutor, jury, judge, bailiff and jailer as the case is today.? No free society can function in a system where a single person can decide the fate of another person entirely.? It's abhorrent to the principles upon which all of western society is based.

Will Johnson

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