(urth) Exproper Use of Subject Lines

[brunians at brunians.org]

Explain to me how you can use the words 'voluntary' and 'enforced'
together and make sense.

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> Agreed.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Discipline, voluntarily enforced, is a Good Thing.
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:22 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>> Ve must haff DISCIPLINE!
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 5/21/2010 9:59 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>>>>> On 5/21/2010 9:01 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> n my experience, it is unless you have a moderator with the ability
>>>>>> and the will to enforce pertinent subject
>>>>> I have, in the past, attempted to change the subject lines of threads
>>>>> as
>>>>> they moved OT. Maybe half or less of the participants followed. If
>>>>> the
>>>>> particular email that prompted them to responded did not have a
>>>>> changed
>>>>> subject, they didn't change it. Probably, because they didn't care
>>>>> about
>>>>> it as much as me or Mr. Brewer. Or, in the respondents opinion, their
>>>>> response *did* have to do with the original subject line. Hopeless
>>>>> cause.
>>>>
>>>> it's not a hopeless cause, it just requires enforcement. I do it on
>>>> playtest discussion lists all the time: I lay out the rules for
>>>> subject
>>>> lines, ask people nicely to follow them, warn them when they go
>>>> astray,
>>>> and if they persist in going astray, I send them to the land of
>>>> postings-held-until-released-by-a-moderator to wander in the
>>>> wilderness
>>>> until they see the light.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>>>> IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
>>>> < http://ieeetamut.org >
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