Like DD, I prefer the free-for-all. When someone becomes
irritating I can always block them, as I have done before with our plusquamperfectum
friend.
Herb
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.
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