[Reader-list] a letter to Sarai admin

[taraprakash]

Thank you Yousuf for daring to suggest this. considering The low level of 
the "discussion" in many of the mails, one can't be sure what they might 
face for suggesting such a thing. So I could never muster enough courage to 
suggest.

Thank you so much.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yousuf" <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com>
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>; "Monica" <monica at sarai.net>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:13 AM
Subject: [Reader-list] a letter to Sarai admin


> Dear Sarai readers, especially the admin
> We have discussed this a million times, but the habit of a few people to 
> put the entire list (of 2000+ subscribers) on ransom by only discussing 
> their favourite topics day-in and day-out doesn't seem to stop. I am not 
> in favour of moderating or censorship (and I love freedom of speech), but 
> those of us who post 40 emails a day should at least think about the 
> excesses they are creating in the world.
>
> Sometime ago someone had suggested that each subscriber should be 
> restricted to post a certain number of mails a day (maybe 2 or 4). Why 
> can't we follow something like that. I wonder if the Sarai list has the 
> technical options to automatically restrict people from posting in excess, 
> but something needs to be done desperately. These days, whenever I have 
> any conversations about Sarai among friends, everyone seems to have grown 
> fed up with it - many are thinking of unsubscribing or already have. 
> Simply deleting or ignoring the mails or applying filters is not enough. 
> Because one usually is tempted to subject headers, and one opens the Sarai 
> mails with a lot of expectation. But many a times, one gets disappointed 
> to see a sort of personal chatting going on.
>
> Why are we doing this hara-kiri in the name of freedom of expression.
>
> Yousuf
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