Moderated posts?

Rosane Rocher rrocher at SAS.UPENN.EDU
Wed Oct 22 19:21:42 UTC 2008


This seems best indeed.

Cheers,
RR

Quoting Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK>:

> Accidental private messages are relatively rare.  Mostly they don't seem
> to cause any problem.  On one or two occasions in the last two or three
> years it seemed proper (with consultation) to erase the message from the
> public archive.
>
> The overhead of list moderation is VERY severe, and I am certain that none
> of the committee members would be willing or able to take on the burden of
> vetting every message.
>
> For the forseeable future, this will remain an unmoderated forum. The only
> real alternative is to close the list down (as happened once before).
> But I don't think we're remotely near that necessity at the moment.
>
> I hope we can agree that with a bit of good will, we can just continue to
> politely ignore accidental private messages.
>
> Could everyone be extra careful with the "send" button, and have a quick
> glance at the "to:" field before sending?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Dominik
> --
> INDOLOGY committee
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Andrew Glass wrote:
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > Perhaps it is time that this list was moderated so that private postings
> > don't wind up as part of the public record.
> >
> >
> > Andrew Glass
> >
>
>





More information about the INDOLOGY mailing list