NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Tighter moderation policy -- Reminder re NNSquad Forum
Greetings. Those few persons who have suggested to me that I moderate this list too tightly will likely be disappointed, but I hope that the majority of you will be pleased by the following. While you never see the messages that are submitted to the list and not distributed, the volume of such submissions that consist primarily of often short back and forth arguing, cc'd to the list but not appropriate for the list, has been rising sharply. Even with messages that I do send out, I often have to deal with "I want to have the last word" submissions that will not meaningfully advance discussions to areas where we haven't previously tread. While I attempt to keep the dialogue balanced over the long run, not every message is appropriate for a chain of "Romulan Right of Statement" replies, and there are many busy people on this list who simply do not have time for too much low signal/noise bickering. Therefore, while I will of course continue to forward messages that I believe to be of general interest to the readership overall, I must request that most of the spirited, more argumentative messages move over to the NNSquad Forum ( http://www.nnsquad.org/forum ) which exists specifically for this purpose and for other higher volume traffic. I realize that most everyone prefers the soapbox of the mailing list, but I really do have to draw the line on this, especially since fairly soon we'll hopefully be moving more into an operational phase rather than a purely discussion phase. While the Forum is moderated, it is moderated with a much lighter hand, and in general anything that is relevant, legal, and polite is fair game there. You can read and post anonymously, but if you're registered you can also receive messages and reply to messages via e-mail, so you'd only typically have to use the Web interface to start new threads. Again, the NNSquad Forum URL is: http://www.nnsquad.org/forum . Moving forward, a wider variety of messages submitted to the mailing list are likely to receive "Good message for Forum" rejects, but these are not thumbs-down evaluations on the messages' contents per se, but simply statements that the messages in question are more appropriate for the Forum. Particularly interesting or informative Forum threads will naturally be noted in the mailing list. Thanks in advance for your cooperation with this policy. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator