[Mailman-Users] Preventing binaries

Deirdre Saoirse deirdre at deirdre.net
Tue Dec 21 20:01:26 CET 1999


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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