Fw: RE: [Aslml] Moderated?

[Scott Romanowski]

Pete,
     It came through Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:00:02 -0500 .  Check your 
preferences; you might have "Receive your own posts to the list?" set to 
"no".  If so, you'll never see your own posts.
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At 05:57 PM 10/31/2003, Pete Shelling wrote:
>Can you PLEASE post my message to find ASL players in Tempe, AZ? It is
>time-sensitive.
>
>Thank you
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aslml-bounces at asl-forums.net [mailto:Aslml-bounces at asl-forums.net]On
>Behalf Of Paul Ferraro
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:47 AM
>To: Aslml at asl-forums.net
>Subject: Re: Fw: RE: [Aslml] Moderated?
>
>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
>
>
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                    Scott

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