On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:38:20 -0800 (PST) Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Dan Mick wrote:
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
On a list with a bunch of users with vcards and stuff, this would simply tax the mail list admins.
You might be surprised. If your users value the list you have at hand a significant manipulative force for altering their behaviour. Just delay or bounce-back posts which don't meet your standards and they'll likely change. It would have been easier if you had done this to start with as you could have then formed a base more for your list culture more easily, but it can still be retrofitted.
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
On a list with a bunch of users with vcards and stuff, this would simply tax the mail list admins.
You might be surprised. If your users value the list you have at hand a significant manipulative force for altering their behaviour. Just delay or bounce-back posts which don't meet your standards and they'll likely change. It would have been easier if you had done this to start with as you could have then formed a base more for your list culture more easily, but it can still be retrofitted.
*I* am not the mail admin in this case. Someone who is not especially computer literate is. It's too much to ask.
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