[ncdnhc-discuss] Limit email sending....

[Rob Courtney]

Well, I think it's unrealistic to expect the Ad Com to scrutinize 
every poster's behavior, every day. I think the best we can do is set 
a standard and trust the Ad Com to enforce that standard as well as 
it can. I think the traffic cop analogy works well: it's not possible 
to enforce a 65 MPH (or 100 KPH) speed limit on everyone, but police 
enforce it enough to keep drivers' behavior on the roads reasonable.

If I get ticketed on the highway, I might complain that the policeman 
singled me out out of the hundreds of people driving that day -- but 
if I didn't want to pay the fine, I shouldn't have exceeded the speed 
limit. As long as the standard is only enforced against people who 
actually violate the rules, I don't have a real problem with 
"selective" or "targeted" or "limited" enforcement, whatever you want 
to call it.

r

P.S. And since there are five Ad Com members, you've effectively got 
five traffic cops. So if one fails to perform responsibly, the others 
can pick up the slack.

At 12:42 PM -0600 11/27/01, Alejandro Pisanty - CUAED y FQ, UNAM wrote:
>Rob,
>
>the "selectively" part could be troublesome; would you please expand?
>
>Yours,
>
>Alx
>
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