[ICANN-EU] Rules for the EU@LC ML

["Constantine S. Chassapis" <cschassapis@acm.org>]

Dear Jeanette, Dear all,
 
If we form a message list that will be the
substance of the EU@LC, here are some
rules that I find helpful:
 
 
<quote author="Jeannete">
If we manage to agree on rules that are explicitly 
designed to avoid chaos, flames and rampant traffic, 
we may be able to govern ourselves.
</quote>
 
DO ...
 
0. Create THREE lists: 
    (a) Member presentation, 
    (b) Sum-ups, announcements, questions by the directors, 
         questions to the directors, invited "speakers", 
         lists of papers and links, etc., i.e. messages of some general 
         nature and of interest beyond a particular thread. 
    (c) List for everything. No moderation. We are responsible
         people, aren't we?
 
1. Fully and honesty PRESENT yourself, at the beginning, in a 
   parallel message list called "member presentation". In this
   list also, other people will be able to thread to a specific 
   presentation at later times with complaints or other appraisals. 
   This way, a person with a lot of positive appraisals gains authority
   given to him by the other members according to his/her
   intellectual accomplishments and his/her conduct. A person with
   lots of complains, well, ... he will be forced to live with them,
   as  long as he will be member. I really think that this is a fair
   regulatory procedure by the members for the members.
 
2. LIMIT the number of postings per unit of time. Unit of time might
   be a day or a week. Number of postings can be one, ten, or fifty.
   Or, list (a): five per week, list (b): three per week, list (c): fifteen
   per week. Self-regulation. No counters. If one writes too many 
   messages he will receive complaints. 
 
3. SUM-UPs people. Sum-Ups!
 
4. Each one of us, in his site (a site can be a
   requirement, maybe) should make a list of his
   postings so that everyone (including himself) will be
   able to LINK references and to go back and see interesting
   points. This can help also by allowing all of us to post 
   SMALL messages with links to the elaborated points.
 
5. Put KEYWORDS in the messages. Then, later, a simple search
   methodology can be implemented. We might as well think
   NOW for the keywords.
 
DON'T ...
 
1. EXCLUDE a priori anyone.
 
2. Accept UNKNOWN persons. A detailed self-presentaiton
   must be required. A valid physical address also 
   might be required in the self-presentation. Also occupation.
   Maybe other things can be required.
 
3. Write NON-English in the messages (assuming that the
    language of the messages will be the English lang.)
 
4. Develop personal FIGHTS. At least, try not to.
 

What do you think?

Sincerely,
Constantin Chassapis