On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Foster, Dawn M <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >>> Moderation also has some problems because the moderator >>> is taking the responsibilty for deciding what the user meant to do. The way >>> we have it set up now, we're putting the decision in the users' hands, which >>> seems fair to me. >> >> It's impossible to protect people from themselves. Some people will sign >> up to the list, and 6 months later will accidentally send something >> confidential to the list - but they're members so it goes straight >> through. Oops! >> > I agree that you can't protect users from themselves, but you can put > the decision solely in their hands. If they subscribe to a list and then > forget what it is, this becomes their mistake. If a moderator lets it through > or > if we let people who aren't subscribed post to the list, it takes the decision > out of the user's hands. I prefer to let each user make their own decision and > then be accountable for it. By requiring subscription and email confirmation, > you can be certain that at some point each user made a conscious decision > to join the list.
The decision is to click "send", that's how e-mail works. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
