At 05:39 PM +1000 07/25/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Day three of the e-gold list being under siege from Jim Ray - a man >at odds with all his laissez faire tendencies which scream from the >marrow of his psyche ... LET THE LIST GO FREE! :) ... (interesting post deleted -- I wonder how much governance versus a glitzy-site, etc. will make a difference to the average person? I suspect it's less than I'd hope, but it's an interesting question IMO). To answer Khurram and others, the purpose of this experiment was not to limit debate, but to limit redundancy. Now, posts about it are beginning to get redundant, so I'll adjust the policy and see what that does to this giant psychological experiment. ;^) Another purpose I had in mind was to encourage posters to check and re-check facts before posting them to a list with hundreds of people, for the same reason that you now MUST not quote other messages excessively, and must, yes, take the time to cull irrelevant parts of your message if you want to send something here, out of courtesy to the list. If I'm sending mail to one of my friends, and wasting his/her time, that's one thing, and I do that with one style, but when I'm writing to a list where I could be -- over the next few days -- wasting the time of OR entertaining hundreds of people, I take a little more time on it and do things like spend 5 minutes proofreading or checking my spelling. I agree with offshoresurfer to a point, but I don't WANT people to be deleting a lot of posts, because yes, we have people who wish (for whatever reason) to subscribe to the digest. Digest users (generally just before leaving, due to un-interesting or excessively-rude posts) have indeed complained to me, and some still hold on I think... I'll take the limit up to seven* messages, I can't imagine wanting to hear from even the most-interesting person here more than that. I want to also point out that this experiment (even in failure) - sadly, worked better than a gentle message to the list, exhorting no more repeated/repetitive messages, duplicate messages and against the rules too-many-ads messages, etc. please. I may control those in other ways, if they continue -- which I sincerely hope they don't. I'm happy to hear any and all other suggestions for what to do from anyone (preferably directly to me, since managing this list has little to do with e-gold or gold backed currencies) regarding increasing the signal-to-noise ratio on this list. Also, if someone can point me to the archive where more-than-seven interesting messages came from one subscriber in a 24 hour period, I'll take the limit off all the way (I may anyway, who knows?). Thanks. JMR * once the damthing lets me log into it! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
