Re: [DML] Walt quitting

[Mark Noeltner <mark@xxxx>]

At 08:05 PM 7/29/02 -0000, you wrote:
>As Marc mentioned, I would be interested in seeing a DMC-News "Reject" list 
>setup. Set it up as a list that only the list-owner(s) can post to, and the 
>moderators can just forward all the rejected postings to that list. Not
only do I 
>think it would be interesting to see the depth and breadth of the crap
we're all 
>NOT seeing, it might make the moderators think a second or two longer 
>before out and out rejecting a posting.

I think that this idea is a good one. Let everyone see what sort of junk
the moderators have to wade through. I've belonged to numerous other groups
that were un-moderated and finally ended up quitting them in disgust. It
was a pain just to wade through the messages to sort the good from the bad.
Sure, you can just use your delete key. IF the subject header on the
message bears any resemblance to the actual message body.

>The list MEMBERSHIP has grown and evolved a great deal over the last 
>seven years, and perhaps it's time for the list itself to grow a little,
too. It would 
>be nice to hear from the 950+ others that subscribe whom we never hear from, 
>I think we'll all agree. 
>
>James Espey
>Moderator Emeritus

I'm not one of the main posters. I probably post twice a month, if that. So
I guess I qualify as one of those 950+, and I've got to say that the
moderators are doing a heck of a good job at a time consuming, thankless
task. Sure, they're not going to please everybody all of the time. I've had
a few posts rejected too, but overall I have to support the moderators.

Also, as Mike S. said in a post just recently, messages do just disappear
or get delayed. Yahoo Groups is not perfect. Don't blame the moderators
EVERY time your post goes to the great bit bucket in the sky.

Mark N
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