- From: Jeff Bone <jbone@jump.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:44:24 -0600
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote: > - Become ruthless and enforce a rule that all postings must > contain an issue number in the subject line or have a > subject line that says "New Issue Proposal for TAG" > - Try to restrict discussion to those issues that the TAG > plans to discuss at its next meeting - we'd have to publish > our agendas well in advance, but we think we can do that. > This model worked pretty well in the old XML IG. > - Drastically restrict posting rights to www-tag; either > to TAG members or to Invited Experts or by some other > criterion. The other, unmentioned alternative would be to go to a moderated mailing list. A good moderator can greatly improve the STN ratio of any list. Notwithstanding issues of how that works -wrt- W3C mailing list software, I'd advocate that --- a liberal yet informed moderator could easly cut off noisy discussions that are not on track. There might be some reluctance on the part of TAG members to play this role, so perhaps an external (non-TAG) moderator with a "let anything from TAG members go through, and all other things related and on-topic but not digressionary besides" policy might be the best solution. Just a thought, jb
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