From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Dews-Alexander
Sent: 2009-04-11 16:02
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Rid the undesired

Thank you for your input, DD. If filtering works in Eudora, I suspect it will work in most mail programs. I've never tried to filter an address that is sent through a list server on behalf of an individual, but it sounds like it's no problem.

I'm not a fan of heavy moderation on discussion listservs, but it just seems so susceptible to falling apart in a "no rules" environment. I ask about ATEG's management of the listserv mostly out of curiosity.

John

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, DD Farms <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

At 02:28 PM 4/11/2009, John Dews-Alexander wrote:

. . . what do you do when the poster's rude behavior and insistence on saturating the list with his opinion (an unscholarly one at that, likely to confuse many who come to this list for guidance) reach the limit of most participants' patience?

DD: I just hit my delete button. If it happens too often I use my e-mail filter to shunt the undesired to junk. Works in Eudora and I suspect the same filtering is available in other e-mail programs. Haven't seen the need to filter in this list, though. What some seem to hate, I enjoy. But then I am a grammatical dilettante and frivolous, too.

I've asked this before to no avail -- does this list have a moderator? Does ATEG's listserv have any regulations at all or any effort at moderation. I'm not asking about censorship rules per se, but Web-based forums surely must have some kind of content and topic moderation as well as user decorum and behavior guidelines, right?

DD: Well I belong to the infamous norules list, which means exactly that. I own the latinofftop list which also is no rules. Seldom have any complaints, but then most of our members are computer canny. However, most lists do mandate some restriction on topics and manners. I don't know about this one. Don't really care, as I can handle offenders, myself.

To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
   http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/