> Personally I also dislike the specific benefits made by Lynn > of a forum of posts being editable or controllable. these > lists are very self limiting and the few storms that come up > go away quickly. a good free and open discourse is the heart > and sole of what makes this such a wonderful list for all and > probably one of the major supports of the product for the > company (and i would hesitate to say w/o it, it may not have > made it this far). a big brother approach to this kind of > discourse (ie channeling, censoring, or editing) ruins it > with even the threat of it.
Storms never go away because lists are retransmitted and syndicated, often without permission from the list owner. A lot of list software also doesn't allow easy editing of archives. So, for example, if some person transmitted a bunch of illegal serial numbers or made untrue, libelous or fraudulent statements on a mailing list its extremely hard to clean up later. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
