At 02:17 PM 11/4/95 -0800, VZNuri wrote:
if there were two key elements here, these conversations would probably largely go away (instead of continually reappear) - an unambiguous charter - an active moderator
unfortunately I suspect that a moderator does exist but he "prefers to remain anonymous" ("pseudonymous"?). imho that is precisely how *not* to succeed as a moderator.
As an alternative, there was the Cypherwonks list, which worked just that way, and such conversations did rapidly go away :-) What's evolved here instead are a couple of filtered lists, such as cp-lite, where you can get the conversations that one or another monitor considers relevant instead of the whole firehose. It seems to work reasonably well for a lot of people. #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---