[Foundation-l] moderate this list

[Anders Wennersten]

Anthony skrev:
> This is especially true if the main person complaining about the discussion
> has only been here for a month.
>   
Just for the record as I will not pursue this issue any more.

I have used e-mails daily since 1984 (actually then introducing the 
first mailsystem into a major Swedish company). I have been active in 
many hundreds maillists, and have no problem handing a flow of mails.

I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have 
compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and 
find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same people 
and arguments, but where on internal a complicated issue can take 20-30 
mails whereafter often some type a consensus is reached , I find on 
foundation-l some 200-300 mail in the same subject with no firm 
conclusion. After following the list for six weeks I have come to the 
conclusion the inefficiency of this list is because it is too chatty, 
and that an improvement could easily be done by just abiding to the 
common-sense rule I have experienced on other list where there are many 
subscriber - limit the number of entries per user and day - it enables 
more people to participate and make it easier to follow a discussion.

Anders (last entry on this subject)