Subject: moderation and banning people

From: Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:59:13 -0500 (EST)

Some people have said they'd like this group to be moderated or
that some people should be banned from the group. I'd rather see
the group stay open and that we do the following to self moderate
the group:

* Ignore abusive posts or if you feel you must respond to the
  abuser, respond privately.

* When someone sends an inappropriate message to the group, politely
  tell her that it's inappropriate and where is the appropriate
  place to get the information or ask the question. Do this 
  quickly so the person gets a polite response before an abusive
  one.

* Teach people how to use Procmail or Pine to "kill" abusive
  participants. E.g., in Pine you can kill someone by using
  initial-keystroke "macros." Here's how I would kill someone
  whose email address is [email-masked]:

pine -P pinerc. -p pinerc-groups. -I G,"in-l-pine-info",CR,;,T,F,"[email-masked]",A,D,X

Note that this is specific to my setup.  I have pine-info msgs
filtered into a folder named in-l-pine-info and I use a config
file called pinerc-groups to override some settings in my pinerc
file.

For this self moderation to work, we need to add info to the FAQ
about how to deal with abusive participants and how to "kill"
them.

What do other people think about banning some people and/or
moderation?

-- 
 
Nancy McGough           http://www.ii.com/           Infinite Ink
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From: Timothy J Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:43:10 -0500

Author:	Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough <[email-masked]>
	Date:	Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:59:13 -0500 (EST)
	ID:	<Pine.WNT.4.05.9812081357440.-304949@aleph>

> about how to deal with abusive participants and how to "kill"

Why do people keep thinking the people who won't read the FAQ before they  
post will read the FAQ if we add more to it?

> What do other people think about banning some people and/or

I vote for moderation, and I will gladly ban anyone who refuses to read the  
documentation or flames an _ON_TOPIC_ post.

TjL