Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:16:50 EST
From: justin@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Mark Waks)
Message-Id: <9403291616.AA12662@dsd.camb.inmet.com>
To: kkelley@MIT.EDU
Cc: Carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9403290523.AA01194@alfredo.MIT.EDU> (message from Ken Kelley on Tue, 29 Mar 94 00:23:58 EST)
Subject: Re: Avaoiding flamage

Cinaed writes:
>Some time ago Rouxandra suggested someone create a list for all the
>BoD discussions, so as to keep Carolingia free for other uses.  People
>pointed out this was a bad idea.

Well, no -- it's not that it's a *bad* idea, it's that it's a *redundant*
idea. At least two such lists (sca-reform and The Fifth Estate) already
exist. There's no particular need for a Carolingia-specific one; very
little of the Board discussion has been specific to the Barony.

>I have a counter-proposal.  Create a flame-free list for carolingia.  Then
>I, and all the others who've fled this list since Jan. 23, can come out
>of our exile, and find out what's going on, again.  People would post
>announcements, and questions like my last one.  But we wouldn't have to
>choke down 40 messages a day of flamage.

Nice idea, but I doubt it will work. Almost all of the BoD discussion
here is being caused by people who are posting messages to *every* SCA
mailing list. Creating another list won't stop that. If you really
want it to stop, then I'd suggest that, when you see one of these
broadly cross- posted messages, you politely write to to author and
ask them to not clog up the local mailing list...

(Note that the volume of such messages is way down at the moment; things
have reduced to a low simmer, very little of it on Carolingia. There are
still flare-ups, but I'd guess that 75% of the traffic on Carolingia at
the moment actually belongs there...)

				-- Justin
				   Who is more-or-less resigned to getting
				     eight copies of each xposted message...

Random Quote du Jour:

"Imminent birth of Kentnet predicted."
		-- Mark Smith