Re: META: Re: STOP IT!

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon May 31 1999 - 15:53:26 MDT


Spike Jones writes:
> Thanks Elizabeth. Your post nearly sums up my view. If we have discipline
> with the subject line, all posts should be allowed. spike

I disagree. The people who post excessively are exactly those who
don't maintain subject line discipline. And why should the workload of
filtering be shifted to the _readers_? So far, my consistent
experience has shown that content carriers don't bother with
filtering. They just leave.

Voting mechanisms for excluding noncomplying posters are easy enough
to implement with a few 10 lines of a scripting
language. Authentication tokens make it pretty hard to forge, too.



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