On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Name Withheld by Request wrote:

[snip] John Gilmore said:

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Perhaps at that point I should have shut down the list, as Lucky is now suggesting. "Asking the list what to do" was clearly not a useful option. Sandy cared enough about the community to make some concrete

Not a useful option? Why not? If there aren't any ideas left in this community, I'm with Lucky. Pull the plug. [snip]

I've been meaning to ask this for a while...but why *don't* we just pull the plug, at least for just a few days? Unsubscribe everyone from all the lists, wait a bit, and then send a message to all of the subscribers with full info on each of the lists (cp, cp-unedited,cp-flames) and see what happens when they resubscribe. I bet that most of the people who don't post and don't care one way or the other wouldn't bother to resubscribe, so we'd have a higher ratio of people who mind if the list is moderated vs. those who'd be happy either way. Zach Babayco zachb@netcom.com <-------finger for PGP public key If you need to know how to set up a mail filter or defend against emailbombs, send me a message with the words "get helpfile" (without the " marks) in the SUBJECT: header, *NOT THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE!* I have several useful FAQs and documents available.