Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00687)

Doss,

You said it very well. I agree with you 100%
Liesel, member ti>

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