Fw: RE: [Aslml] Moderated?

[Paul Ferraro]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 swfancher at mindspring.com wrote:


> I get the attachments as well...I use Eudora to read the mail usually.  Is this something
> that can be changed?  I am not worried about a routine attachment, but if attachments

I'm working on minimizing attachments.

> Lastly, moderation....  I think if it is in a similar manner to the "old" list, that is fine, where
> it was applied relatively infrequently and to topics that were completely OT.  But if it is
> going to be used to screen for "tone" or "POV" then I am absolutely against it.  For that matter,
> I someone judgmentally censors a post on something that they think is OT, then they had
> better be certain that they edit 100% of OT posts.  otherwise, you are censoring an
> individual, not limiting content to "on-topic."  IMO, allowing users to choose which messages
> they do and do not read is the way to go.  Hitting Ctl-D takes less time than it takes to read
> this...and I think everyone knows who they think should be ignored, and probably spends all
> of about 1/2 of 1 second saying "Oh, another post from that idiot Fancher" and deletes it.

OK, I hope no one bustss a nut just yet over moderation.  As we learn more
about the features of the discussion list software, moderation may be
relaxed.

Please keep in mind that one idiot can make life hell for everyone else.
We have had at least two of those occur since I have had the list, and
that does include Pete, Tate or any of our other flamboyant personalities.
And tjose types of posts are difficlut to deal with when gettng messages
in digest format.  You can't just delete or filter that part of the
digest.

The number one item being screened now: test messages.  If you get a
rejection when sending a test message, it hit the list (i.e. it's
working), it was just not resent to all.


Paul Ferraro