<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>How about people just follow the charter like they are supposed to? Tolerating bad behaviour doesn't prevent it, and in fact it only encourages more.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Ashley <mark@ibiblio.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Phill Groom <pgroom@gmail.com>; "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] Moderated/Vetted AusNOG list to reduce the guff (was Re: Understanding lack of Aus connectivity to melbournefreeuniversity.org.)<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>You can solve it with technology by coding up an "ignore this thread"<br>link at the bottom of every email, the mail software backend recording<br>users preferences, or more realistically, just adding a client side<br>filter for that subject line.<br><br>On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Mark Smith <<a ymailto="mailto:markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au"
href="mailto:markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au">markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> The problem I have with " Leave it as it is and ignore the fluff" is that<br>> that takes effort that I'd much rather (and if the list becomes to full of<br>> fluff, will) put into other things. If people walk away because they can't<br>> be bothered spending the effort to filter out the fluff, then the list has<br>> lost the value that their experience and contributions brings.<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>