Igor wrote: > Would not be an act of disconnecting other nodes be an act of > proprietorship also? > > I personally think that a separate filtered list would be a better > solution, more choice and all.
Yes perhaps. There is a technology, and in theory it should work, and was designed for distributed ratings: NoCeMs. Anyone explored NoCeM's? I don't think everyone wants to upgrade to NoCeM aware clients, but if there were a list listening to the NoCeM's from people that were interested to do a kind of distributed filtering for quality, then that distributed filtered list might be a nicer alternative. The filtered list owner would do the job of choosing which NoCeM raters to honor the ratings of, and everything below some threshold would be trashed. There would still be unfiltered lists. I hear there is an onspool NoCeM implementaiton for newsgroups, so perhaps there is an equivalent for mailing lists. Or perhaps one could achieve it anyway with the clunky approach of gating the list to a local newsgroup, running onspool NoCeM, and then gating it back periodically (so the NoCeM's could accumulate and take effect) to a mailing list. Or giving access to a newsgroup -- that's pretty convenient for permanantely connected people, though marginally less so for dialup. Adam
