Re: wg list discipline

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On fredag, februar 21, 2003 09:17:10 +0100 Erik Nordmark 
<Erik.Nordmark@sun.com> wrote:

> I wonder if the folks that respond to Keith can be
> convinced to not respond to postings which to not discuss the text in
> the specification in order to make progress. If they care about getting
> the document done then there is some chance that they would.
Talking to Keith (as in "pick up the phone") might help, too. He's not dumb 
or intentionally obstructionist, but I think he has problems seeing what he 
looks like from the outside....

I've seen him behave much more reasonably in cases where he felt that he 
was being listened to; it's the cases where he feels that he is right but 
being ignored that seem to send him off into the "reply-to-everything" mode.

In the case of the ICANN DNSO General Assembly (by far the worst list *I* 
have ever moderated), I had to institute a policy of five messages per day, 
one warning, and then suspension for a week on second offense. Was seen as 
reasonably fair, and people recognized the need. But that was a very 
special mailing list..... and I also had to institute a policy of kicking 
Jeff Williams clones off the list, as part of the overall policy set. 
Rule-based enforcement is NOT easy....

                Harald