In need of c.l.p.discussion

[Rune Steffensen]

Erik Max Francis meditated and wrote something like this:

> Rune Steffensen wrote:
>
>> Well, see above.
>> We don't need reliability: if just a couple of people in a thread
>> takes
>> responsiblity the mess would be considerably reduced.
>
> That sounds dubious.  I can only imagine that on the Big Eight such a
> policy would devolve into constant crossposting between the two groups.
> There'd be no way to stop it, and trying to move a thread from one to
> the other would always result in some people crossposting to both
> (either because they don't want it moved since they don't read the other
> group or to be difficult).  Without moderation there would be no way to
> enforce this, and there is no policy in place to change the moderation
> status of Big Eight groups.

Of course you are right, I've seen my part of the net. I'm not asking for
perfection, just a possibility to appeal to peoples rationality.

[snip]
> You're just in the wrong newsgroup :-).

:)


> A far better solution to your problem -- namely avoiding threads you do
> not want to see -- is to just use a killfile.

I know. But, as I said in another posting in this thread, I'm not using
python in an active way these days, even if I probably will in the
future. So the maintainance would need more work, than the delete-
strategy.

> Even really lousy newsreaders, like the one I still use
[snip]

If you think Mozilla sucks, give Opera a try. I've been using it for news
for some weeks now, and I'm very satisfied.

> Further, as other people have pointed out, what you consider
> "information" vs. "discussion" is a subjective call, just like it would
> be for everybody.

Right, but with a lot of people out there, some subjective calls will be
the same for a lot of them.

> What you're trying to do is impose your subjective wishes on a
> community.

Surely, you don't mean that? If I had tried to _impose_ anything, I
wouldn't have requested comments. And I would have changed the word
"suggest" to "demand".

>  It is true that comp.lang.python has rather high traffic,
> but even fragmentation isn't going to drastically change that; if you
> subscribe to the newsgroup/mailing list, you know what you're deal with.

I didn't, but I do.
:)

-- 
-rune
Incognito, ergo sum.