[Tfug] Interesting point (was Bunghole!)

[Judy Hayes]

No removing body parts?  but that would solve this last flame war so well
:o)   One idea, not sure how possible this is ... is having two lists... one
for the typical jokes and flame wars... or sandbox wars as they were... one
for the person that stumbles on this site looking for help.  I am on several
other lists that do pretty much that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Secan" <jim@nwra-az.com>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: [Tfug] Interesting point (was Bunghole!)


> Judy made a very pertinent point in this never-ending discussion on what
to
> do about these wildly off-topic (and borderline porno) threads that get
> going on this list.  I've not really concerned myself overmuch, because I
> just delete anything from certain individuals or with threads I know to
> have gone off the deep end.  However, a newbie (a class of people whom I
> think we want to help) will not know (1) who the assholes are, and (2)
that
> there are really some useful and handy-to-know folks on this list will not
> know who to ignore and will quite possibly blow the whole TFUG off as a
> bunch of loser technogeek sub-adolescents.
>
> So, perhaps we should discuss how to try to help the newbies navigate the
> minefield that is the TFUG list without resorting to draconian measures
> like throwing someone off (or frontal lobotomies or removal of other body
> parts).  Any ideas?
>
> Jim
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