Posted by Larry Hoover on July 7, 2004, at 20:18:11
In reply to Re: babblemail issues, posted by Dr. Bob on July 5, 2004, at 16:28:30
> > > I don't think babblemail works at all.
> >
> > Oh. It sounded pretty good.
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> OK, let me work on this some more. One question I have, though, is whether it's necessarily good for the community.
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> Would it encourage bonding with individual posters or subgroups rather than with the community as a whole? Would that necessarily be bad for the community as a whole?
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> What do you think the effect has been of regular email between posters?No different than the freedom that Open has provided....an alternative to the very public Babble forums. I have found private email to be a very valuable adjunct to Babble, especially when I am upset. (I sometimes wish I used it first, when I have been upset.)
> Regarding more technical issues, my idea is:
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> 1. Not to monitor babblemail directly, but to ask recipients to contact me if they feel the feature has been abused. I guess if it comes to that, the current civility guidelines would apply?Oh, dear. It never even occurred to me that this might be an avenue for abuse. I can be very naive. Yes, there would have to be similar civility rules.
> 2. So I'd need to be able to verify that specific babblemails actually were sent. I was thinking I'd keep a log of who babblemails whom, when, and "fingerprints", but not actual copies, of the messages.
I don't have a problem with a mail log.
> Let me know what you think,
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> BobLar
poster:Larry Hoover
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