From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 14:14:34 MDT
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Brian D Williams wrote:
> >From time to time a thread begins which list members feel is
> inappropriate. The current "Patriotism and Citizenship" thread
> appear to be one of these.
>
> It occurs to me we have no formal process for ending such threads.
> perhaps it could be as simple as X number of members saying "
> please discontinue this thread"
This seems like a nice idea -- democracy at work. Perhaps
we should have E. Shaun designated to count votes (perhaps some % of
the number subscribed to the list serving as a threshold).
That might be too much work though -- if there are 200 subscribers
and you take a 20% threshold thats a lot of Email E. Shaun
would have to parse. I think someone needs to write a bot
to handle this -- shouldn't be too difficult.
If one did it right, one could parse the list of emailers
that contributed to the thread and send them all a "This
thread has been terminated message" -- that way if they
want to continue the conversation they have a complete
list of all of the people who were interested in the
topic. So you aren't suppressing speach -- you are
just removing it from our collective commons.
Robert
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