[SlugBug] Re: Suggestions

Neil R Porter n.r.porter at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 15 21:59:30 BST 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:05, Matthew Collins wrote:
> I have a couple of suggestions after reading what's been written so far.
> 
> 1. No moderators, or moderators only used for exceptionally large
> messages. We can decide a size later.
> 
> 2. Why ban people?
> 
> Seriously. What possible reason could we have for banning somebody? If
> somebody takes a dislike to what somebody else is saying, they have the
> option of ignoring them, or filtering them out.
> 
> Other than a crapflooder, I can think of no reason to ban or unsubscribe
> somebody from the list. That sort of behaviour is partly what got us
> into the need for a fork in the first place.
> 
> I've got plenty of other ideas, but I'll save them for later.
> 
> Things to do.
> 
> Decide on a definate name. I like slugbug :) sylug is also pretty good.
> 
> Something I would suggest. I know a lot of people are unhappy with the
> way that sheflug was run. Rightly (in my opinion) or wrongly the
> decision to fork has been made. It's now time to move on. Personally 
> (unless I get unsubscribed) I'm going to stay on the sheflug mailing 
> list, because I think South Yorkshire is big enough to house more than 
> 2 lugs.
> 
> Please, lets be mature about this. Leave personal insults and flame wars
> off *both* lists.
> 
> As long as this list takes off (I'm going to try /my/ hardest to make
> sure it does) I'm going to be an active contributer.
> 
> Looking forward to a more open lug :)

Sounds good sane stuff from where I'm sitting.  Yep, open is good
mmmkay.

Neil
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