From Aran M. Parillo Sent Wed, Apr 29th 1998, 13:24
From Aran M. Parillo Sent Wed, Apr 29th 1998, 13:24
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Tohao T. Nguyen wrote: > besides the new rule about sales/trades, aran should add something about > > kicking off people for wasting bandwidth by just stating "____ sucks". thanks for the opinion. for the record, I will be taking a less active role in policing the list, simply because it's a waste of my time to do so as it has little to no effect on the abusers. however, a ironed fist approach to abusive posts will remain held behind my back at the ready should it need to come crashing down upon some subscribers inability to express common sense decency. with regard to the "IDM only" for sale portion of the new policy, I hope this does not discourage people from selling, say, their Coil discs, or old fripp/eno LP's and the like. the definition of IDM remains as loose as ever, for better not for worse. the most important portion of the new policy is the attempt to REIGN in the recent wave of users who feel the need to update the ENTIRE idm-list about ongoing auctions. despite the fact that I get queasy viewing the prices people pay for things, I find the continous updates a waste of resources and a disregard for the technology at hand. simply put, if you're going to fatten your pockets with auction money, you are not going to use the IDM list technology to simplify your task. you may, as stated, announce your pocket fattenning intentions ONCE and proceed with interested parties OFF LIST. your points with regard to not just posting "so and so sucks" are precious words of advice which should (and will) also be included in the idm.info re-write. easy, tp np: the cure - cold colours