[Gllug] RFC - February meeting

[Tom Gilbert]

* john (john at sinoda.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 2) A moderator empower to kill an Off Topic thread
> 
> The first proposal didn't make it to a vote, the majority of people thought 
> that this won't not work in practice.
> 
> With a show of hands about 3 said no to suggestion 2) and 50+ said yes to
> suggestion 2)

The only way you can do this with a public mailing list is to have _all_
posts moderated. You don't want to do this, it adds a horrendous lag to
all posts - especially when said moderator is away/asleep/busy.

People just have to learn when to take it off-list.

Tom.
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