[SlugBug] Re: Suggestions

[Neil McGovern]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:05:45PM +0100, 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.

Agreed, IMO.
List admins can deal with one off moderations.

> 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.

Completely agree.
 
> 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 got bored so knocked this together:
http://www.halon.org.uk/listguide.txt

Comments/corrections?
The one which will need discussing in the above text is the paragraph
about reply-positioning. The one in the text is a nock together of a 2
year argument, but we could easily change it to say "NO TOP POSTING".

> Decide on a definate name. I like slugbug :) sylug is also pretty good.

Needs to be done ASAP. Branding, people, think branding! 
</marketing drivel>

Neil
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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad?
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