On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Christel Nyman wrote: > Funny that Vince should mention not making an exception for Sept 11th, > because I made an exception for that topic on my list,
I did not make an exception, and one some lists tried to pre-empt by pointing people to other places. But for one list it became a topic for list administration as went off the air as a consequence (list management server is in lower manhatten, and I had to "manually" mail a local copy of the membership list letting them know. In general, I am fairly hard-nosed about things. When one list got into a Microsoft bashing episode (which started as an on-topic comment), I had to actually use majordomo's taboo_body feature to "moderate" anything mentioning microsoft. I've also stomped on other off-topic discussion through public scolding. I have also banned certain addresses from posting after repeated refusal to take private and public advice. One thing I don't do is "let peer pressure" take care of it. I consider meta postings (postings about what is and isn't appropriate to post) to be the exclusive perogative of the list manager. Though I have in the past explicitly set up a meta list to discuss primary list policy. I try to intervene before list members feel the need to act themselves (and before they unsubscribe). So I am a relatively heavy handed list manager. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
