[wlug_org] On fragmentation of the List...

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:26 +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
> >> The reason people often dont use these lists is that fragmented lists have
> >> a smaller audience.  To use the adsl mailing list as an example, many
> >> discussions wound up starting on the larger main list and the 'chat'
> >> alternative that was provided to reduce the noise count took quite a bit
> >> of effort to get people to use.
> >>
> >> I personally think that a less policed list will be of more value.  On
> >> NZLUG we don't have to actively police policies very often - plenty of
> >> rope is given. Not many actually succeed in hanging themselves.
> >
> > yes, but NZOSS is a very different type of organisation to what wellylug
> > is.
> 
> 
> NZOSS != NZLUG.
> And NZLUG is not all that different.

my mistake.



> >> I dont know that WellyLUG is benefiting from its current set of rules as
> >> evidenced by recent discussions, and its not like the list volume is so
> >> large that very strict enforcement such as is currently the norm is really
> >> necessary.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any "very strict enforcement". Please give me any
> > example of where someone has "enforced" a rule?
> >
> > And none of these rules will be a problem for you if you do as the host
> > wishes. And face it - the host is "god". You don't bite the hand that
> > feeds you!
> 
> I have openly supported the concept of 'doing as the host wishes'.
> However the very function of the _org list is surely to facilitate 
> discussion of the very policies that the host 'wishes' and that become 
> defacto policies through the agreement of members of _this_ list.

I did post this to the list before I did it to the main list. I didn't
get any complaints about it. That's as close as anyone can get to
getting approval with wellylug.


anyway, Daniel is getting tired of this (and so am I). :-(

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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