[HECnet] New mailing list - HECnet Random :)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-10-03 01:51, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/02/2013 07:48 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
We really don't need ANOTHER one.   We have plenty.   The one where
we all want to talk is the one where talking is not welcome, and
the one that was created specifically FOR talking is the one we
never use.

Lack of a list is not the problem here.

Ironic really. But I suppose we could encourage people to sign up to
Dectek, if the Random list gets no traffic I'll just delete it.

I don't run mailman on my mail server (and am nowhere near it, SSH
over 3G sucks) so this was the simplest setup.

    Don't get me wrong, I (and others I'm sure) appreciate the thought.
It's just that the lack of a list really isn't the issue.   Either this
list has to become more hospitable to the friendly chatting that every
one of us very obviously wants to do, or we have to move that friendly
chatting to the other list and get into the habit of keeping it there.

    Shit...at this rate it'd be easier to make THIS the "friendly
chatting" list for the socialization of the group of friends that have
formed around HECnet, and create a separate list for zero-noise hecnet
operations traffic.

    Johnny?   Your thoughts?

That will not happen. People are subscribe to hecnet for it is the forum about hecnet, decnet and dec computers. In a wider scope, other relics can also be somewhat on topic.
Changing the purpose of this list does not make sense for the majority. And I would unsubscribe everyone before retargeting the list.

The majority of people subscribed are not posting much. Also, I try to keep a very tight ship, so that spammers don't manage to post. I think I've been fairly successful at that (I have blocked about 60.000 spam posts to the hecnet list over the years).

I don't mind a little social life here, and I think the latest threads shows as much. I occasionally contact individuals when I think it is going too far, but I don't do that much policing at the moment.

However, if the list would to get 200 new subscribers in short order, who were more looking for a social channel than technical discussions, I would definitely have to clamp down. The signal to noise ration is at an acceptable level at the moment, but I don't want it to drop more.

	Johnny



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