Re: [mpowr] Mailing List Management

Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com> Tue, 23 December 2003 18:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpowr] Mailing List Management
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From: Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com>
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On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 12:53 PM, James Kempf wrote:
> So I guess I don't see any difference between the chair sending out 
> email
> saying "filter this guy's email" and the chair removing the person 
> from the
> list, except from a theoretical standpoint. The net effect is the same:
> nobody reads the disruptor's email.

Except for the people who don't filter, which we know from
experience to be other people who like a brawl.  I'd say it's
actually a net loss in terms of the utility of the mailing list.

Melinda


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