On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:16:52PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
... Also, for those of you who don't remember, it's not a question of whether or not we should ban bowerbird. That decision was already made by Greg. Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an accidental oversight, when the list was moved to the new server, that ban was not moved with it. The other mistake was made when that ban was not put back in place once it was realized that it had been omitted. Of course, this is all speculation, and I might be way off on my reasoning.
It wasn't accidental, and I apologize that it causes so much difficulty for the many people who are unable to simply ignore (intellectually or technically) certain postings from certain people. BB was never banned - he was simply put under moderation. Putting him under moderation was my decision, made after considerable complaints and debate (sound familiar?). Removing the moderation was someone else's decision - you can guess who. Putting the whole list under moderation is viable, but only with clear moderation guidelines and at least two active moderators (active means multiple times per day). I still think modern, thinking people should just be able to ignore messages from people they don't care to hear from -- or seek technical facilities for helping them to do so. But clearly there is more call for stronger measures, which remove such responsibilities from all list subscribers and instead shunt them to a few centralized individuals. -- Greg