[LMB] listbiz, was Pizza Call

[Tzivia Adler]

> My take on the pizza call -- and I'm going to use my "list admin" .sig
> for the mailing list that I admin -- is that it's serving the purpose 
> of...
> an iron-fisted list admin. <snip snip snip>
> Thus, an advancement of the theory of Teatime. Or a "Pizza for X days,
> please?" modification to Pizza.
> -- 
> --Beth, In Nomine Mailing List Admin
>

now -there- is an idea that might work.  i have been following this thread 
all along, bec. it is interesting to see how more vocal listees (or people 
with more typing time?  better organizational talents?  whatever)  would 
deal with the current pizza rule.  the consensus was, it almost works, we 
need something like it, but what about people on digest or who only read 
mail once every day and reply late, they end up jump starting the thread 
again.  so the rule needs a tweak, but no one had the new idea.

how about this:  if people reply as they read, whether on time, late, or in 
digest form, thats ok.   once anyone sees the pizza call, stop replys for x 
time (three days?  a week?  how long does it take for outrage to settle?) 
and then start again, very cautiously.  the people who had major aggravation 
before the pizza can choose to avoid the thread altogether, or try to argue 
without raisng thier -own- blood pressure.

of course, if people would remember to ---change the subject line--- when 
there is thread drift, a pizza call would not cut through a wide swathe of 
conversation.  i for one would like to say that i have been enjoying all the 
permutations of the slash thread (including the pizza'ed thread).  it 
spawned what, eight other threads?  more?  so if things seem to be heating 
up on the main path, and someone is meandering down a side road, stopping to 
smell the flowers, changing the subject line is a very good idea.

so what do other people think of Pizza for X days?

ziviya, whose pet peeve on this list is not the arguments but thread drift 



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