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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:18
Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:14:02 -0500
Adam Back writes:
> I think that fragmenting lists is actually harmful. There is little
> enough traffic on CodherPlunks anyway. Splitting it and creating two
> lists I suspect will only serve to reduce overall traffic. People
> can only cope with so many lists. Some people may find one but not
> the other.
Well, it is up to other people whether CodherPlunks continues. Everyone
is free to do as they wish.
Myself, I'll not be taking action until my new mail server is in place
in a few weeks, so it isn't going to happen tomorrow.
> Perry proposes not just to remove spam, but to provide a moderated
> CodherPlunks where (one presumes) he will cut off mid-flow any
> discussions he views as getting repetitive or boring, as happens on
> cryptography.
Actually, I only do that with non-technical discussions or outright
flames (i.e. "you're an idiot for not understanding how factoring
works"). Most of what I'll cut off on the new list will be
non-technical content of any kind, since that won't be part of the
list charter -- I'll probably let virtually all the technical stuff
fly freely.
If people don't like my moderation style, they need not join this
list, or contribute to it. I don't force anyone into using my
services.
> I don't see how moderation benefits a list which is basically about
> coding issues, typically we see questions such as `how do I generate
> parameters for foo crypto-system' followed by a list of suggetions.
None of this would be necessary if people would be so kind as to not
post political announcements, spam, and a dozen other things that
don't belong on CodherPlunks. As this is not likely to happen, I'm going
to start a new list.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:18