"Unfortunately 80% of the posts are worthless drivel, so finding the gems
takes patience."
Indeed, extracting a meaningful message/signal is asking for much effort and
...patience.
But the beauty of this forum is in its longanimity, the good-natured
tolerance of incompetence in newly emergent fields of computing ontology and
semantics. (01)
----- Original Message -----
From: "k goodier" <kgoodier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'[ontolog-forum] '" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Tighter control of ontolog forum? - a solution? (02)
> Another forum's policy on posting traffic may offer an amusingly
> interesting
> parallel:
>
> Their policy:
>
> A basically unmoderated high-traffic forum for disclosure of information.
> Fresh research sometimes hit this list many hours before it passes through
> the more controlled moderation queues. The relaxed atmosphere of this
> quirky
> list provides some comic relief and certain industry gossip. Unfortunately
> 80% of the posts are worthless drivel, so finding the gems takes patience.
>
> k
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F. Sowa
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:37 AM
> To: [ontolog-forum]
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Tighter control of ontolog forum? - a
> solution?
>
> The best way to limit the noise on this list is for people to exercise
> some self restraint.
>
> I try to limit my contributions to one note per day, and I try to group
> my responses to multiple people in a single note. Unfortunately, I
> sometimes go over the limit, especially in the middle of a hot debate.
>
> Recommendation: I suggest that ontolog forum should have an automatic
> cutoff that would prevent *everyone* except Peter Yim from submitting
> more than one note per day. If anyone hit the "reply button" for a
> second note during the same 24-hour period, the email handler would
> send the note *only* to the original sender or anybody on the explicit
> cc list. (In case of emergency, it would be possible to ask Peter to
> post a second note to the whole forum.)
>
> I believe that this solution would reduce the noise very significantly.
>
> John Sowa
>
>
>
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