Subject: Re: irrelevant posts

From: Jim Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 09:53:06 -0500

At 10:41 AM 1/9/98 +0000, Mike Brudenell wrote:
>Rather than going the whole hog and turning the list into a moderated one
>(ie, have every article vetted by a human before passing on to the list at
>large) how about converting it to become a _closed_ list, so that only
>subscribers can post to it?  Then people who haven't subscribed but try to
>post would get an error message back telling them that the list is a
>closed one, and presumably this could go on to explain (a) what the list
>is REALLY for, and (b) how to subscribe.

IMHO: bravo, ditto, etc!

Jim Carpenter
Manager of Student Information Systems
Eastern College
Saint Davids, PA

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:33:15 -0000

OK, let's get hold of the list owner, and take this to the next step.
Otherwise we'll continue to endure the same blistering "asbestos gloves"
nonsense concerning irrelevant posts and I for one would rather help fix it,
than complain about it, and have to read Robin's "insult du jour" which
bless his heart...gets real old after a while.
I don't mind moderating a new list, I just want the problem to go away by
proactive means. I welcome any suggestions you can come up with.
I asked two people who mis-posted (after *politely* telling them where they
had posted to, and why it/we couldn't help 'em) to send me URL's of any
*actual" resource on the name change thig. If I can get hold of those URL(s)
I'll do up a recipe in procmail to send out an autoresponse that will take
care of those posts.
In the meantime, I wish I knew that anyone from the University actually read
anything from the lists!

>I don't know who the Webmaster is, and who the list-owner is. The Webmaster
>would need to change the archives to clearly give a description of pine on
any
>Web page that has a mailto: URL. I got a letter today on "lxgal nxme
chxnge".