Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 09:09:20AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
>"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> writes:
>
>...
>> * It shouldn't need twenty people to make a point or start arguments and
>> counter arguments. If someone has already written what you would have wanted
>> to write, that's fine: in many cases you can safely leave it there.
>> The list is moderated: the volunteers moderating the list and everyone
>> reading the list will appreciate you for not providing more to read through.
>
>I'm a little concerned that this mention of moderation could give the
>impression that we're filtering messages based on tone or content.
>
>Unless I've misunderstood completely, we do not judge the content of the
>messages, except that we filter out very obviously abusive trolling that
>the list was suffering prior to moderation, and obviously drop
>SPAM/Phishing/etc. if we see it.
Agreed, that's exactly the policy. It just takes more time to check
more messages, and I think that's all that Andy was suggesting.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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