On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bill Casti (System Admin) wrote:
>
> Bad idea. I counter-propose we all just continue to hit our "delete" key
> when we find an asinine post (such as the one below?), thereby making it
> functionally irrelevant. Who would be the "cop" to try to enforce the
> separation of UNMODERATED lists--that's the kind of tasks moderation is
Agreed.
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bayard G. Bell wrote:
> > Because I feel that large volumes of asinine posts are detracting from
> > this list and because a few members of this list seem to have persistent
> > problems with immoderate posting (or immoderate posting in response to
> > immoderate posting), I would like to suggest splitting this list in two:
You're invited to start, run, and moderate your own list. Or run a
digested version. I'll even offer up a majordomo site if you want to do
the work of submitting a digest distribution once a week.
Or learn to use the delete key, or procmail, or by a mail client that
supports threading.
In the old days of this list, most of the discussion was technical, and
oriented around building / coding firewalls. Most of the people doing that
are far enough along in their commercial ventures that they couldn't
discuss such issues, even of they had the time.
These discussions have been largely replaced by "how do I configure",
"which is best", and "what's a good policy for ..." discussions. Most of
the people on this list have never used FWTK, or written any firewall
code. The list has largely turned into a user group.
Splitting up the list will seperate the few remaining technically elite
from those they occasionally still find time to help.
If you wnt to contribute, and have the time it takes to moderate a list,
you'd be better of running a digest version of the list, or working to
keep the FAQ updated.
-r.w.
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