Hi Gadi, I took the effort and looked into the other postings of some of the guys. I guess they are only keyword or sender envoked bots. I have never seen any positive postings from them. Kind regards Peter and Karin Gadi Evron wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, John Underhill wrote:
-Moderated Approach Create an nanogofftopic@ to give a vent to members. If a post is clearly offtopic and not announced as such, use a 'three strikes your out' approach, first warning and inviting review of list guidelines, then as a last measure cancelling list subscription. Include 'this is offtopic!' responders among offences, and maybe we can reduce some of the list noise.
Hi John, thanks for the wise words.
I believe our biggest problem is that "on topic" is not defined. Many here see different issues as operational to them while a few here always yell and scream the minute someone posts that interest.
An off-topic list won't help much, if we can't decide, by poll or arbitrary choice, what actually is on-topic. That can later on be followed.
Lists evolve, readerships change, and subjects of interest change. But without certain guidelines, I don't see why any crowd should be silenced or any minority with loud voices should silence them.
If such a concensus/decision is reached, it will be followed to the letter with the full backing of whoever needs to back itup.
Thanks,
Gadi.
John
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