18 May
2002
18 May
'02
3:08 a.m.
On Fri, 17 May 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
This puts the onus on the moderators to do all the work. But it is one
way to implement it.
As I proposed previously, I thought it more logical for CCTECH to be the
default list, and to post an off-topic thread a person goes over to
CCTALK to do that. However, the record of people's ability to police
themselves on here is pretty dismal, so maybe we should do it the way
bear describes.
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Somebody reads CCTECH and is subscribed to CCTALK
also (but they don't
get mail from that list)
[...]
Problem is, what a particular person sees
depeneds also on what lists
others have subscribed to.
The way this is handled on another list I am on, which split in an
essentially identical way for essentially identical reasons, works
opposite to the way CCTALK/CCTECH do now. Its "tech" list is managed this
way:
* All articles are sent to the unmoderated "general" list.
* A moderator (or moderators) "promotes" on-topic messages received by the
general list to be delivered to the essentially read-only "tech" list.
* All replies go to the general list; on-topic replies are promoted, etc.