On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:15:39 -0500 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
On Dec 13, 2016, at 5:29 PM, oshwm <oshwm@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Wrong thought experiment, a chat is realtime - conversation becomes lost when trolls attack but a mail list allows for emails to hang around long enough to be read and replied to despite any spam that might appear in thw thread.
That was part of the reason I framed it that way. Curious what Juan's thoughts were.
Well even in the case of real time text chat, the problem is trivially solved by filtering at the client's side. Now if we were talking about a multi-party phone conversation...but that's a bit more far fetched or an edge case... On the other hand, you could argue that there are 'private' communications, but a similar problem would arise. In a small group it's quite possible that there would be a majority that wants to impose certain 'rules' about what can or cannot be said. Which is a problem. Also, the private/public distinction is rather ambiguous because from the point of view of the members of the 'private' group, the group works as if it were public (accessible to all members).