[rescue] wrong list?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, April 2, 2002 at 15:23:31 (-0600), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] wrong list?
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:15:47PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > It also pretty much *kills* the "community-ness" of this list.
> > I must say you seem to have an extremely strange idea of "community"....
> 
> How about I just shut it completely down?  Would THAT make everyone
> happy?  I cant seem to please one side or the other.  Might as well give up.

no, no, of course not!

It's just that you are kind of out here on your lonesome w.r.t. this
reply-to stuff.  Very few lists I know of do that any more, for the very
reasons that are being complained about.

A managed community does need some kind of mechanism to keep it from
straying away from what makes it a community in the first place.
Traditionally in mailing list forums this has been peer pressure and/or
forced manual moderation.  It doesn't seem peer pressure works very well
on this list (even when it's you applying the pressure), and IIRC you've
said before that manual moderation isn't in the cards for this list....

(of course all the other lists I'm on suffer from the "reply-all"
syndrome, though personally I deal with that by setting the reply-to as
appropriate myself and I usually only get "burned" when I try to suggest
all followups to my post should be private but not everyone plays along....)

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