On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > As an alternative, consider email filters. Filters can be per sender > or per keyword, depending on your email system.
I guess these are two totally different schools of thought: 1) There is one community, one pool of messages, and we all do what we can to make that pool as productive and pleasant as possible. 2) Each member of the community decides what he/she wants to see, and uses tools to filter as appropriate. Having experienced both types of community, I have a strong preference for 1). There are all kinds of problems with the second type: people end up filtering stuff out that they just don't agree with (ie, they're wrong, but don't have to listen to anyone tell them so), cliques form, and overall the community is weaker. Quite honestly, I'm very surprised that the idea of a set of behaviour rules for the mailing list, with moderators, is at all controversial. Mailing lists have been around, what 30, maybe 40 years now? Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
