On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 03:48 +0000, Wilson John D. Barbon wrote: > I think making distinctions of the plug mailing list good and fairly > easy but like many laws we have in this country--enforcement is much > to be desired. Unless we have a good "mailing list police" who will > rebuke OT discussions and punish repeat offenders--there is no point > in making several mailing lists. Dadami lang ang mapaglagyan ng mga OT > threads that some people love to do.
It can be enforced, though sometimes things would just have to wait as we do have daytime jobs here... For now we resort to reminders, as these are the punishments that can be met can also be quite severe: 1) Forced unsubscription for individual offenders 2) Monetary billing for those posting job ads or other identified commercial usage of the mailing list 3) Ban on habitual offenders, "trolls", etc. These consequences are those that we really don't like happening to anyone anytime. That would definitely alienate further people from the mailing list. So far there are quite some lapses but generally the list police do their work of coaxing people to just use PLUG-Misc when their judgment qualifies that the topic is OT. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
