Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Re: The list

[Greg Dunn (MyLists]

>>
Are you volunteering to come up with a formal statement of the standards
that is somehow approved by everyone on the list? <<

I would be willing to participate in, or lead, an effort to come up with
such a statement, yes.  But I also think everything would be made
immensely easier by adopting Sharon's suggestion of establishing
concentric lists.  Fred has also indicated an interest in this in
backchannel discussions he and I have had recently.

>>
I think it would be good to have standards that messages are measured by
but I am not willing to devote any time to their creation or
enforcement.
<<
If there's some kind of reasonable statement of the standards, the
community can accomplish the enforcement by itself pretty easily.
Basically, somebody says, "That's off-topic; please re-post to
Cohousing-L2 (or whatever)." Those who agree with that assessment then
simply stop responding to posts on that topic on the first list.  And
the "offending" party isn't deprived of the opportunity to address the
community; they're just asked to do so in the appropriate forum, which
at that point has been provided.

Greg Dunn
 


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org] On Behalf Of Mac & Sandy
Thomson
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:14 PM
To: Coho-L-postings
Subject: [C-L]_Re: The list



>From Sandy at Heartwood Cohousing.

If Fred doesn't do it who will?

Are you volunteering to:
1.  Form a committee or team to evaluate each message or ones that are
in question?

2.  Are you volunteering to come up with a formal statement of the
standards that is somehow approved by everyone on the list?

I think it would be good to have standards that messages are measured by
but I am not willing to devote any time to their creation or
enforcement.  I think Fred does a good job and I appreciate not getting
a lot of off topic information on the list.  If anything I think he lets
some things through, I wouldn't consider on topic.

Thanks Fred,
Sandy


On 02/19/03 8:19 PM, "cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org"
<cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org> wrote:


> 
> I'd like to know how the rest of you feel about the issue of
> censorship of this list. Specifically:
> 
> 1. Do you feel it's necessary or appropriate to have one person with
> absolute power to perform it? 2. Do you feel it appropriate that he 
> should do so without providing any formal statement of the standards 
> on which this censorship is based? 3. If you feel there should be 
> formal standards, how do you feel those standards should be created?
> 

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