Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2004/07

From: "Howard Shertzer" <shertzhg@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Non-clarinet topics.
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:37:27 -0400

To all,
I recently subscribed to the list as an amateur always trying to improve.
The postings regarding the clarinet are wonderful, and I have learned a lot.
The other 90% regarding politics and personal in-sniping I consider spam. I
don't think they are in order for this venue. Nobody cares. So for those
sending personal emails via the Klarinet page, please stop.
This is my personal opinion.

Howard
Email shertzhg@-----.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Seely" <oseely@-----.edu>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:14 PM
Subject: [kl] Non-clarinet topics.

> I'll make this short because, with apologies, it is itself not, strictly
> speaking, clarinet oriented.
>
> I was the listowner of a list with a short list of posting guidelines.
The
> only substantive one was a prohibition against name-calling. All the
other
> guidelines were technical in nature. Everything else as regards subject
> matter was allowed.
>
> Each time there was name-calling I simply attached the guidelines to a
> message to the poster and asked that the guidelines be followed. It never
> failed to keep people in line. I didn't have to go to a second strategy,
> as described below.
>
> But the ownership of the list changed to a person who decided to allow
> everything. I wondered if a list could be killed by a one or two
> individuals posting anything they want. The answer is yes. Between two
of
> us, both academic professionals, we killed the list. The subscription
list
> went from about 165 down to six. Four of those were dead accounts. So
> finally, the list was made up of the two people who decided to "go at it"
> with each other.
>
> I would recommend the following quiet strategy, based on the idea that the
> Internet is big enough for everybody. If anyone wants a clarinet list
> where the discussion of politics is acceptable, there is nothing
> prohibiting that person from setting up such a list on www.yahoolists.com
> and announcing it to the world, including an announcement on KLARINET. By
> eliminating a person who decides not to follow guidelines of a list the
> listowner is not somehow limiting that person's right to set up his own
> list and to establish his own guidelines. Here's the strategy. Tell the
> poster that the guidelines have been violated. If a second posting on the
> same topic comes from that person, the listowner simply unsubscribes him
> without notice. If he reappears again, the listowner unsubscribes him
> again. It's a little labor intensive, but basing this opinion on what I
> discovered can happen to a list by the imprudence of just two individuals
> makes it worth it.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
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