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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> [...]
> The NMRA is dying a slow death because it has inadvertantly erected
> barriers to entry and the current membership is dying off. We must not
> set up a situation where the cad.dev community suffers the same fate.
> [...]
Indeed!
BTW, if someone is being a major PITA in a group, does that in effect become
a barrier to entry of sorts? :-/
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > I promised as part of the offer to host the list that if problems like
> > that came up, posting filters could be introduced. [...]
By "posting filters" I didn't quite mean barriers to -entry- (to beginning
to participate, that is) -- although this was one suggestion out on the
table many months ago.
What I meant above is barriers to continued use if someone is being a major
problem and won't stop. Those barriers are easy to put up if needed. Think
of them as raising shields. :-)
It's been done about 2 or 3 times so far, for short periods (someone posted
wildly off-topic in .robotics several times; two people posted auction
updates in non-auction groups), and there are currently no filter in effect.
In all cases so far, IIRC, the group filters were set up to filter out only
a single group (but the filter can be any arbitrarily complex regex applied
to ng names).
--Todd
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