That seems like a lot of responsiblity to place on one person--I don't see
how an individual could do this without it greatly affecting the spontaneity
of the list (unless that person never slept, taugtht their classes, or just
took a couple of e-mail free days and just stayed online most of the time to
forward messages as they came in). Losing subscribers would be bad; losing a
moderator and the list because it is too much stress to maintain would be
worse.

I was on a few lists that operated as you describe and this is what would
happen on the one I quit--someone would post a question and then every six
hours a batch of emails would be released that essentially said the same
thing since no one knew if or how anyone else had responded. I think some of
the larger lists through NCTE have some kind of a verification
process--maybe they have a program that searches for a list of content words
before they release the post or maybe they have a dungeon full of employees
who moderate the list 24-7-365. Does anyone know?


Maureen Fitzpatrick
Professor, English
Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KS


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Varner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: freedom of speech


> Paul--
>
> Are you the moderator of this list?  If so, all messages should first
> be approved by you before going on to the list members.  Right now,
> any message sent to this listserv address is published.
>
> I am on several excellent listservs, and the moderators of those
> lists see the messages first.  They delete all messages that do not
> have a bearing on the topic of the listserv.
>
> I'm afraid this listserv will lose subscribers if the porn
> announcements, commercial announcements, and political announcements
> continue unabated.
>
>                   Ben Varner
>
>
> > Dear list members,
> >
> > I have posted several messages regarding these issues to the list, but I
> > guess I need to do this once again. As secretary, I forward ALL UCEs
> > (also known as SPAM) to the proper authorities (like the FTC), but I
> > don't know of any techniques that are foolproof in eliminating or
> > blocking SPAM from coming through. Perhaps the list moderator can give a
> > more technical explanation than I can, but the only methods for dealing
> > with this problem that I know of are reactive ones.
> >
> > For the record, there is now some anti-spam legislation in effect, but
> > my experience suggests that it is completely ineffectual -- in fact, the
> > day that it went into effect, my SPAM started to increase! Most of it
> > seems to come from overseas.
> >
> > I'm open to suggestions from any computer nerds out there!
> >
> > Paul
>
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