X-Message-Number: 26713 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:16:26 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: re: exclusion, a suggestion Hi Everyone! The issue of just how bad a messagers messages to Cryonet must be has arisen once more. While I don't manage Cryonet, and don't plan to set up a substitute, I understand why Kevin wants to exclude some messages. The problem with excluding messages is that getting everyone (other than the author of the messages) to agree on their exclusion looks hard. The one case in which some kind of exclusion might be reasonable would be hyperlong messages. Here is a suggestion. I don't know myself how easy or hard it would be to implement in the present Cryonet software, but I'll make it anyway: NEVER exclude messages unless they are too long. Instead the excluded messages always come as the last messages on each issue of Cryonet, with a special header saying "Excluded" before the set of excluded messages. We could then if we DIDN'T want to read such messages, simply stop reading that issue of Cryonet (I generally delete it after I've read it and answered any message that I felt deserved an answer; sometimes I do save individual messages if I thought they had something I wanted to keep, but never the whole issue). It is, of course, Kevin Brown's choice as to what to do here. This is just an alternative to exclusion, and I put it forward as a slight step toward total freedom of expression on Cryonet... which can often be unpleasant to many. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26713