[PLUG] List Guidelines
Larry Williams
larryw at holbrookmasons.org
Tue Oct 4 04:58:14 UTC 2011
On 10/03/2011 07:39 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> I agree with all of that. But allow me to play devil's advocate for a
> bit. Is it fair to new people coming on to the list to have to deal
> with this and just learn to deal with it their own way?
We deal with people like that in every circle, Mike. And it's no big
deal at all to mark Robinson's posts as spam and let the email program
deal with it. Unfortunately for those who get digests, they have to see
his posts or change their habits, but the consequences of banning him or
someone like him seem far greater than asking list members to just
ignore him. Paying Robinson no attention whatever only hurts him and,
for a very short time, newcomers to the list.
If Usenet taught me anything, it was how to filter the undesirable chat.
Larry
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