Moderation

I think that this is a completely fabulous idea, an commend John and
Sandy for doing this.  Let me add my own suggestion.

This will fail if flames migrate from cypherpunks-flames to cypherpunks,
I would attempt to prohibit threads that only exist in cypherpunks-flames
being continued into the moderated list.  This'll be hard to do, Sandy,
I know, but if you could think of a way to do this, I think that your
experiment is more likely to succeed.

Phrases like "As I said in the letter that only got sent to
cypherpunks-flames" should cause the whole article to be yanked,
IMHO.

thad
-- Thaddeus Beier                     thad@hammerhead.com
   Visual Effects Supervisor                408) 287-6770
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Thaddeus J. Beier wrote:
> 
> This will fail if flames migrate from cypherpunks-flames to
> cypherpunks, I would attempt to prohibit threads that only exist in
> cypherpunks-flames being continued into the moderated list.  This'll 

I disagree. I think it's quite conceivable that a serious point could
arise from the flames. If a moderator can't be challenged based on
what happened with the reject list, what's the point of having a reject
list in the first place?

Anyway, I don't think such a rule is possible to implement, nor would it 
protect the moderator from other forms of denial-of-service attack even 
if it were implemented.

-rich

Thaddeus J. Beier wrote:
> I think that this is a completely fabulous idea, an commend John and
> Sandy for doing this.  Let me add my own suggestion.
> This will fail if flames migrate from cypherpunks-flames to cypherpunks,
> I would attempt to prohibit threads that only exist in cypherpunks-flames
> being continued into the moderated list.  This'll be hard to do, Sandy,
> I know, but if you could think of a way to do this, I think that your
> experiment is more likely to succeed.
> Phrases like "As I said in the letter that only got sent to
> cypherpunks-flames" should cause the whole article to be yanked, IMHO.

Ooh, the iron boot is descending fast. (Better just yank 'em all, huh?)

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C'punks,

On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Thaddeus J. Beier wrote:

> I would attempt to prohibit threads that only exist in cypherpunks-flames
> being continued into the moderated list.  This'll be hard to do, Sandy,
> I know, but if you could think of a way to do this, I think that your
> experiment is more likely to succeed.
> 
> Phrases like "As I said in the letter that only got sent to
> cypherpunks-flames" should cause the whole article to be yanked,
> IMHO.

That's my opinion as well.


 S a n d y

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