----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sloan II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:32 PM Subject: Re: test
> Reggie Bautista wrote: > > > Somehow, the thought of anonymous dinging had never > > entered my mind before this discussion started. Since > > I first heard mention of dinging, I always assumed it > > would be an open, transparent process. Personally, > > I'd like to see the ding-er give an explanation to the > > ding-ee as to why they are being dinged in a calm, > > polite way, much like it used to be when someone was > > tapped by the legendary "wand of dinging." > > Same here. The dinging Nick is developing seems pretty far > from what we called dinging in Jo Anne's day. The idea of > anonymous dings makes me nervous, plus I always thought of > a ding as merely a message telling the dingee (or other > small boat ;-) ) to cool off, not a mechanism for slowing > down the dingee's posting. I can see anonymous dings being a problem. I think we can do without that feature. To first order, the folks who will ding are now the folks who write emails discussing their displeasure with a post or a series of posts. The difficulty with the Jo Anne method is that times have changed. We have at least two posters who have indicated a strong disinclination to stopping a series of posts because it was politely requested. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
