TO EVERYONE: Dinging Suggestion

[Ronn Blankenship]

AFAIK, we never decided on a procedure to handle "dings". Based on recent events, I'd like to humbly submit a suggestion to at least prevent endless back-and-forth arguing.

Let's say that listmember "A" "dings" listmember B.

"B" responds by counter-dinging "A".

My suggestion:

"A" and "B" get one response each. After that, if either brings it up again on-list, both "A" and "B" are immediately suspended from posting for 24 hours for a "cooling-off" period. If either brings it up again, the cooling-off period is 48 hours, and so forth.

I invite _substantive_ discussion of whether this is appropriate/too harsh, whether Dr. Brin would approve, etc. My goal in suggesting this is to stop the almost incessant on-list p*ssing contests between certain list members that clog the list and are extremely annoying to other list members who just want to have discussions with on-line friends.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled mailing list, and wish all of you a happy day.

:)


--Ronn! :)

I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle


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