Re: META: Enforcement of mandatory subject labeling

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 18:21:00 MST

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    At 12:14 PM 3/29/03 -0500, Eli wrote:

    >John K Clark wrote:
    >>There has been a request to label posts that deal with certain events in a
    >>country whose name must not be spoken. I'm happy to comply but I am curious,
    >>what's the big deal? The time it takes to set up elaborate filters and write
    >>posts complaining that other posts are not properly labeled is much longer
    >>than just hitting the old delete button. Is it really the end of the world
    >>if you happen to see a few words of it in the fraction of a second before it
    >>enters electronic heaven?
    >
    >I think it'll take less work to do this than to spend the next several
    >months wading through all the SUBJECT LINES IN CAPITAL LETTERS - it's
    >getting hard to even see the real posts between all the others.

    Many members requested this off-line. It seemed like a reasonable way to
    handle the flurry of posts on both the war and on politics which were
    getting blended together and difficult to separate. In deference to list
    members, I asked posters to use [POLITICS] for posts on politics and [WAR]
    for posts on the war with Iraq or any other country.

    This has nothing to do with any one country and the suggestion by John
    Clark that it has to do with some country "whose name must not be spoken"
    is erroneous.

    Natasha Vita-More
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