On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:18:17PM -0400, Jim Tinsley wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:04:17PM -0700, Melissa Er-Raqabi wrote:
Could you please take private your ongoing discussions of whose penis is bigger? I signed up for this list to read discussions of Gutenberg by its volunteers. Or was I wrong about what the name of the list implies?
There is just so much noise on this list that I'm tempted to unsubscribe AGAIN, and you know what? I'm a Gutenberg Volunteer, and this list could be a very useful one to me. But you both give me a headache. Jon, why don't you join Bowerbird's Yahoo Group, which seems not to have a lot of traffic, and you two can chat to your heart's content? Or is it having people watch that really turns you two on?
Can you please be quiet, PLEASE?
Thanks for trying, Melissa, but I'm afraid that neither Jon nor Bowerbird, in their very different ways, actually understand what we're doing here, so I'm afraid the only way to get our list back is to change the character of it, and limit membership to people who do, or impose very narrow moderation parameters.
Greg, I will reluctantly now support a move in this direction.
If we take this direction, next step is to basic form moderation guidelines and find at least two volunteer moderators (not me), who will provide rapid turnaroud time. gutvol-d is by far the most valuable general forum PG has, so we don't want to toss the baby with the bathwater. (Ok, maybe a few *particular* babies, already named :-) If someone knows of an easy way to block per-address messages from particular individuals via Mailman, please clue me in. This doesn't seem to be a feature of their "topics" facility. Personally, I simply don't read or respond to anything that Jon or BB writes, and haven't for quite some time. I guess we get enough newcomers to the lists that there is a constant influx of people willing to respond. I would use Procmail to filter such messages (all modern mail clients have similar filtering capability), and probably should, but since I get well over 600 spam messages in an average day just dump it with the rest of the crud. -- Greg