John G. asked: > > How do you think the "essential constraints" will emulate those that > > have afflicted this list? >
And Jerome responded: > Spare us the Spahnesque misreading. The "essential constraints" are clearly > different between the two lists. Essential to this list is that it is not > censored in any way. Essential to JM's is that his list is censored from the > outset, and therefore could easily be in some other respect in the future. I > expect that under John's able stewardship, it will have a long and > distinguished > history. But it will not be completely uncensored. That much is clear. > No, it won't, but I do not think that will be main thing that list members will notice. I will try to leave the list to operate on its own to the extent possible, unless we encounter an abuse of free speech that results in people leaving the list and other members repeatedly having to waste time making reasonable requests for the offending party to exercise restraint. I think there will be two major changes that will be obvious from the outset: 1. Mark has posted around 1,500 "messages" (many of them just URLs, and many others cross-postings without any comment) to this list since it moved from Google Groups. These "messages" will no longer foul anyone's in-box. Nor will the responses to them. John G. has written around 750 messages in the same period, but many of these were in response to Mark's "messages". This is true of Roland as well. There will be no need for any of this wasted time and energy and bandwidth now either. 2. Former members of the list will likely return and start contributing again. No promises, but I think the prospects for this are fair. That will increase the number of voices heard here, and hopefully generate more interesting discussions, over a broader range than just politics. I appreciated Jerry's suggestion about how each member could inject something regularly about a topic of particular interest to him or her, and hope that we can follow up along those lines. Just got back in from a trip into town, so I am not sure yet how many people have joined the new list. If anyone has not received a message yet and wishes to join, please let me know and I will see to it. Welcome all, save one. John Marchioro --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
