SUPERB idea, David! What is a reasonable number of posts per day? I note that "Jeff Williams" posted 56 messages in TWO days (January 12 and 13), not counting his plethora of cross-postings, which brings his contribution to the stuffing of my mailbox to well over 100 message in 48 hours. Add me to the long list of subscribers not at all interested in receiving spam (SPAM = sending prodigious amounts of [unwanted, unsolicited] mail) David Schutt wrote: >Perhaps a something like that idea with a more formal structure could work >to let more people feel comfortable participating. As an example - > >1) Fully open list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >2) Lightly filtered version of same list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > a) No crossposts accepted > b) Limited number of posts per day per subscriber > >3) Moderated version - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > a) Both rules from number 2, plus > b) A moderator with the ability to kill threads that have degenerated >into flames, etc. > >Posts to any of the lists go to the main babble list, and then are reflected >to all three groups of subscribers, and filtered accordingly. You would >subscribe to the version that matched your preferences for receiving mail. > >The nice thing about this general idea is that it can be done with any list, >even IFWP, just requires someone to take on responsibility for creating the >filtered version. Ellen Rony Co-author The Domain Name Handbook http://www.domainhandbook.com ================================ // =================================== ISBN 0879305150 *=" ____ / +1 (415) 435-5010 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ ) Tiburon, CA // \\ "Carpe canine" __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
