Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tl00217)

At 10:45 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Bart Lidofsky wrote:
>ramadoss@eden.com wrote:
>> >> Moderated discussion list hosted by the T.S. To subscribe,
>> >> write to olcott@theosophia.org. To unsubscribe, send a message
>> >> consisting of "unsubscribe" to ts-l-request@theosophia.org.
>> >
>> >       Correct, except that they are misusing (considering the technical
>> >knowledge, I would say innocently) the term "moderated". "Edited" is a
>> >more correct term, although the editing is minimal.
>> >
>> >       Bart Lidofsky
>> 
>>     A lot can happen during moderating or editing. Unless we can see pre
>> moderated/edited and post moderated/edited material one cannot judge what is
>> being done. One wonders about the a need for moderation/editing?
>
>	Moderated means that they choose which posts get passed on to the list.
>Edited means that they cut and paste letters, sort of a manual digest
>form. The reason for the editing (and I believe Joan) is because they
>want to guarantee the privacy of the users (and therefore cut out the
>email address unless the user purposefully puts it in the body of the
>message). She also cuts out the garbage that far too many posters put at
>the end of their messages, so that we don't have to download a 100 line
>message to read the one line that the poster added.
>
>	Bart Lidofsky
>
Thanks for the info. 

I think that TSA can be very proud to be an innovator in moderating maillist
-- editing, protecting the privacy, cut out the *garbage* etc and may be
many other list owners in cyberspace may take the cue and make their lists
better. The person should have extraordinary abilities to do it.

YMDMV

..........MKRamadoss 
           There is no religion higher than Truth