[matilda] Notes on wednesday's meeting & the curse of E-Mail

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 06-Oct-2005 at 04:36:15AM -0700, Anthony Mullen
wrote:
> 
> I know of no easy solution to this.  But what I suggest
> as a starting point for debate is that each person
> limits themself to 1 posting per day for each discussion
> thread (unless there is a real pressing need for more
> haste).
> 
> If this guideline had been in place, I'd suggest that we
> wouldn't have had such fireworks on the list in the last
> 18 hours.  I also think that it would significantly
> democratize the E-Mail list.
> 
> Should I put this in my bag of proposals and bring it to
> Monday's meeting?

You can if you want, but I don't think it would work or
help... But then I'm one of those people who quite likes
email and doesn't consider it a curse...

But if this is what people want to do then I suggest
making the list moderated and having a team of moderators
whos job it is to limit the number of email people send --
ie any email sent to the list would initially be held for
moderation and the moderators would just approve ones that
came within each individuals quota -- I don't think that
just asking people to limit their emails would work, I
think it would need enforcement to work...

Chris

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