Re: Self-moderation

[John Levine <[e-mail]>]

In article <A5CE4192E3FE9B8606D89231@PSB> you write:
>That would take a different tool than one which produces a
>weekly summary.  It does suggest an idea -- especially in the
>context of your comments about people leaving the list.
>Perhaps if the mailing list system returned messages above, say,
>the fifth in an hour on a given thread or the tenth on a given
>list in 24 hours with a careful reminder and request for
>confirmation before the message was distributed, that might
>help. ...

Having been on lists that tried to do that, I can report that it
doesn't work. The people who most need to self-moderate are the ones
who say, yeah, sure, but this is IMPORTANT.

R's,
John