From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 15:01:33 MDT
This is the best idea since sliced bread (and they were pretty good)
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>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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