Moderated posts?

John C. Huntington huntington.2 at OSU.EDU
Wed Oct 22 22:47:48 UTC 2008


I not only agree with Dominik, but, would anyone on the list who has  
NEVER made a send error please raise their hand?

Let us have a little patience for a few innocuous errors

John


On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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