Do please understand that I am not asking for moderation of ALL posts. Only
of newbie's (and only for a while) and of... Well... Olin, specifically.
Your posts would go right through.

I DON'T want to burden MIT with the bandwidth for an UNMOD channel.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Byron A Jeff
> Sent: 2004 Oct 15, Fri 08:20
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a few good... moderators
> 
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:55:43AM -0400, Bob Ammerman wrote:
> > I do not favor doing this at all. It will do nothing more 
> than scare 
> > off potential posters. Let peer pressure and threat of termination 
> > serve to keep things in order. It really seems to have 
> worked pretty well so far.
> 
> Agreed. It seems overbearing to me personally. Akin to guilty 
> until proven innocent.
> 
> All the controversial posts aren't really all so bad in and 
> of themselves.
> It's the multitude of responses that's the problem. If we 
> simply self policed and send any such commentary off-list 
> then the vast majority of the issue would be resolved. Also 
> if an official moderator posted a single warning, then anyone 
> coming in after that is subject to dismissal.
> 
> Or how about another tact? Why not have the equivalent of the 
> advocacy newsgroups on USENET? They only serve one real 
> purpose: to segregate the obnoxious riff-raff from the legit 
> users. But frankly is sometimes funny to see what stupidity 
> folks will post and the flamethrowing that comes after. I 
> just don't want it mixed with legit stuff.
> 
> But (big but...) it needs to be segregated from the rest of the list. 
> I've never used the channels (other than posting into the appropriate
> one) so exactly how does it work? If you unsubscribe to a 
> channel will you simply not receive posts from that channel? 
> Is it the same with digests?
> If posts really disappear when why not add an UNMOD channel 
> where literally anything goes? So if some posts "Your momma 
> is so _____________." in UNMOD that's OK whereas is a 
> termination offense anywhere else.
> 
> I know that we want to legislate civility. But I believe that 
> most of us are modal in our civility. There are things that 
> we will discuss or joke about with our spouses that would 
> never be said in mixed company or around children. I think 
> that if the technology facilitates having such a channel that 
> you must explicitly subscribe to, then why not go for it? 
> Much better than having personal babysitters for grown folks.
> 
> BAJ
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