Jeroen wrote: > At 00:20 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > >That makes sense. I support the idea of dings because it allows the > >community to slow down mail bombs, quiet flame wars, etc. without > >throwing anyone off. > > Dinging will not stop it, it will only delay it. The only difference will > be that a flame sent at 13:00 GMT will not arrive at 13:01 GMT but at, say, > 18:00 hours. If the flame war consists of a number of messages from more > than one person, that all get delayed, it will even stretch the duration; > instead of one day, it might take three or four days.
Hmm - good point. Maybe we should just permanently ban misbehaving listmembers, like the ones that make threats to hold the list hostage to their idea of how we should behave. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Silence. I am watching television." - Spider Jerusalem _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
