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In ott.config Elat Lerner <cx172@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
> Here is where things stand now:

> * Cancellation of crossposted messages to ott.general continues
> * The volume of messages in ott.general has grown by about 25% since
>   cancellations started
>   * The number of contributors has dropped by about 20%
>   * Over 51% of the 5,640 messages now posted in ott.general are written by 
>     the same SIX individuals

I hope you're not trying to say that the increase in volume and decrease in 
the number of posters is a direct effect of the enforcement of the ott.general
charter.  There isn't a direct corelation.

I'll concede there probably have been a couple of posters whose messages have been
cancelled causing them to drop off your list.  Those would be the handful of people
who only post forsale-type messages and/or commercial messages in ott.general
and don't participate in the other discussions.  Or those whose messages only appear
in ott.general because of crossposting.

Those people who post to ott.general and aren't in one of the categories I've just
described and have not posted since mid-October are probably not posting for 
some other reason.  Anyone following ott.general recently would notice that there haven't
been many threads about anything other than Louise's view of feminism and of the various
people posting in ott.general.  That would have taken place regardless of the charter
enforcement.

You don't say how many people the 20% represents, but if 6 people represent between 60%
and 80% of the people posting in ott.general, that would make the number of people who
haven't posted in ott.general since early- to mid-October roughly 4.

>> The whole thing started when one individual, Gordon Dewis, 
>> who is a member of a group called ONAG asked in ott.general 
>> if participants want to have cross-posted discussions.

No, I asked how they would feel if crossposts were cancelled.  The clause has been
in the charter since the summer, but it wasn't being enforced.  And the charter
has been posted on a regular basis.

Enforcement of the ott.general charter was phased in over the last six weeks or so, with
forsale-type and commercial messages being addressed first.

  --G

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