The concetration was to build a sense of professional, courteous, unending intellectual assault upon the topic of the list. Frankly, they sucked up like men just come out of a desert. So far MUD-Dev has been responsible for the collapse and subsumtpion of at least three other lists in the field. In one case the list owner of another list deleted his own list as a way of encouraging and promoting MUD-Dev. Only as needed support and implement that purpose with policies.
Purpose is always senior to policy.
As the mere presence of the membership pre-states that they are interested in or in agreement with the base purpose, the rest comes pretty easily. Conversely, signal generators are aggressively protected. With MUD-Dev the first individual I removed was one whose typo rate was so atrocious that despite the high signal content of his posts, rendered the posts noise. It illustrates one particular trap rather well. Your E - mail List Review of The Day.