Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Res]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Loïc Martin wrote:

> Res wrote:
>> Although some of what was proposed would not work, given mailing lists
>> don't work like web based forums (can't "lock" a thread etc)./
> Maybe I wasn't clear enough. If you're thinking that "locking" threads
> means removing already posted emails from your inbox, then that's
> definitely a hard task.
>
> By "locking" the thread, I mean not allowing any replies to a thread to
> be sent to the list. Which is possible: just filter all replies to the
> thread and messages that have the exact same subject as the locked
> thread, and send them to the bin server side.

Yes it is possible, some modern day list servers (i run one) can in some 
form or another, however, it is high maintenance, and it wont be long before
you end up with large lists, we run several usenet->email gateways and 
it just doesnt work in reality, we've tried it.

> Anyone trying to pursue an offensive thread by opening a new one with a

the list server software we use allows easy adding of "spam" keywords, 
and whos to say that spam list just has to be spam :)


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Res

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