On Tuesday 20 November 2001 14:21, you wrote:
> who drops offenders? what is considered a huge enough offense to drop
> someone from the list? what is considered "appropriate" behavior? would
> the list admin even CONSIDER dropping such favorites as Seth, Patrick,
> KBob, or any of the other long-time subscribees for inappropriate behavior?
> (no offense given, it's just an example. i would hate to see them leave.)
Sure... If these people exhibitied behaviour that was deemed a serious enough
problem. but those individual are fairly resposible adults. We really havnt
dumped anyone... there was one individual that was creating a problem, and we
did allow him to post, but he unsubbed himself before I got around to it,
which was fine.
We do not require permission to subscribe to the list, but posting to the
list does require subscription.
Posting Off topic isnt really grounds for list removal, its pretty minor, If
you post off topic, you take the rusk of getting flamed..... so what.. If a
real problem arises, we would simply deal with it at that time, but we really
dont like having a bunch of rules...
>
> if i express an opinion or share a life experience and am later shot down,
> flamed, whatever, because what i am talking about/promoting is basically
> anathema, or perceived of as, to our *nix community, who is using the
> in-appropriate behavior?
Whats the big deal here? why are you soooo concerned?
>
> i really don't know how to say this, but i basically equate a lot of what
> goes on in this mailing list to religion and politics (and i'm way too
> blunt and personal to be discussing either...), which is why i suggested a
> split in the mailing lists. we can have a polite area, and an impolite
> area (i actually like pat's idea better...) in the long run, i personally
> feel it would be better.
>
> but that's just my opinion. ;)
Your always welcome to have an opinion.
Jamie
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dexter Graphic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:56 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [EUG-LUG:119] RE: Dexter's Query (was Fry's)
> >
> > Justin Bengtson wrote:
> > >i personally would suggest killing the "activism" list. it
> >
> > is hardly ever
> >
> > >used. kill the other lists as well. next, i think we
> >
> > should split the
> >
> > >mailing list into two. one may be called "Opinions" or some
> >
> > such. the
> >
> > >other should just simply be EugLug.
> >
> > What's so hard about simply ignoring/deleting posts that
> > don't interest
> > you? Opinions are a vital part of building a community
> > (getting to know
> > other people's views is an important part of any
> > relationship.) And our
> > opinions don't go away just because we engaged in technical
> > discussion.
> > I don't think there is any practical way you could separate
> > the two. If
> > people get off track on useless tangents like nuking Iran, I
> > think the
> > best thing to do is gently remind them of the purpose of this list and
> > ask them what the relevance of their post is supposed to be. If there
> > is no relevance, than point out that they made a mistake by
> > posting it
> > here. If they make the same mistake over and over again, you point out
> > that they may need cognitive assistance and ask them to stop posting
> > until they learn to control themselves and behave
> > appropriately in this
> > social setting. If they do not, you terminate their list membership.
> >
> > Simple.
> >
> > Dexter
