Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00636)

On Fri, 10 May 1996, Eldon B. Tucker wrote:

> Theos-L Readers:
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> It would be interesting, though, if we could discuss what would
> be proper guidelines for posting to this list. We could come up
> with some more detailed rules than "respect the views of others".
> I'd help with discussing the guidelines, and would follow whatever
> we mutually agree to.
>
> -- Eldon
>
>
Eldon:

Your objective is good. I have been around the discussion "lists" long
before Internet was available to the public. To achieve the objective, based
on my experience, it is going to require very detailed narrow guidelines
and also a "moderator/censor" whose job is to warn anyone transgressing
the guidelines and after two or three warnings the poster should be
removed from the list. Without these two, IMHO, it would not work.

IMHO, it is very impractical come up with *any* guidelines. Any time you
start with guidelines, it is slowly going to gravitate towards a
censored list. I do not think *any one* here would like any kind of
censoring. IMHO, all that can be done is to "play by the ear".
If everyone makes an effort to make this list educative,  informational,
helpful, then we can make it succeed.

This is my 2 cents worth.

	....doss