From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 21 17:09:49 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9LM9n2L023291 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:09:49 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9LM9jvX023280 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:09:45 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 37D7C20BB45; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:09:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29910-09; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:09:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B49F020BB20; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:09:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20051021212444.GA25566@locust.cns.vt.edu> References: <20051021212444.GA25566@locust.cns.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-15--846090594 Message-Id: Cc: oracle-l From: Janine Sisk Subject: Re: a modest proposal Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:07:28 -0700 To: stellr@cns.vt.edu X-archive-position: 27381 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: janine@furfly.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: janine@furfly.net X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE,HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 --Apple-Mail-15--846090594 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I think it's a good idea, but would require a very committed moderator (or maybe even a team of moderators). I got the impression that Steve didn't have a lot of time to devote to moderating. If I'm right that that's the case, then maybe we could at least implement part of this idea and convince people to ignore posters they feel don't deserve answers instead of posting to complain about them? Having said that actually makes me wonder about something else - on the DEC list did responders still send nasty-grams privately to originators who posted stupid questions? If this was allowed, did it help or hurt? And if it was not allowed, what was done when it happened? janine On Oct 21, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Ray Stell wrote: > A list, Signal-to-Noise Ratio proposal... --Apple-Mail-15--846090594 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 I think it's a good idea, but = would require a very committed moderator (or maybe even a team of = moderators).=A0 I got the impression that Steve didn't have a lot of = time to devote to moderating.=A0 If I'm right that that's the case, then = maybe we could at least implement part of this idea and convince people = to ignore posters they feel don't deserve answers instead of posting to = complain about them?

Having said that actually = makes me wonder about something else - on the DEC list did responders = still send nasty-grams privately to originators who posted stupid = questions?=A0 If this was allowed, did it help or hurt?=A0 And if it was = not allowed, what was done when it happened?=A0

janine

On Oct = 21, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Ray Stell wrote:

A list, Signal-to-Noise Ratio = proposal...
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