in response ...

users
#1

Thank you.

       Just one point which you - & others - seem to be unaware: if I had
merely accepted this 2-day old message then it could have been even longer
before the questioner received a reply. Granted some of you may spend all
your time on the computer, but I'm in that group which turns off the
computer to attend to many off-line activities. I feel that if someone has
a query, to which I might be able to help, then it's my duty to do so
without further delay.

       With deepest apologies if my duty-bound attitude offends some,

#2

Anne,

anne-ology wrote

       Just one point which you - & others - seem to be unaware: if I had
merely accepted this 2-day old message then it could have been even longer
before the questioner received a reply. Granted some of you may spend all
your time on the computer, but I'm in that group which turns off the
computer to attend to many off-line activities. I feel that if someone
has
a query, to which I might be able to help, then it's my duty to do so
without further delay.

       With deepest apologies if my duty-bound attitude offends some,

The issue is never that you take the time to respond, rather it is
frequently that your responses are not processed correctly by the maillist
(ML) servers.

The correct action as moderator IS to approve or reject a message, and allow
it to turn through the ML

If a response is necessary--do so against the now correctly processed ML
thread.

That is mostly what folks continue complaining about--not that you help,
just that you need a better understanding of the proceedural context of
moderation.

If you are unable to follow the process--your effectiveness as a moderator
as well as a contributor to the ML is hampered. Perhaps you should consider
resigning the moderator role, and then help with ML threads that have been
correctly moderated and distributed.

Stuart

#3

.
Indeed. Anne-ology's last three messages all carry the same subject
line when I receive them but they have created 3 new threads. I have
never received an email signed Anne-ology thro the list that was joined
to an existing thread. They always appear to break the existing threads.

Maybe Anne-ology just doesn't do 'threading'.

Philip

#4

Personally I've had to relearn how to reply as a list member, GMail
makes it more difficult to reply to the list... but not impossible.

I remember the years and days of the top post versus bottom post
arguments. Silly excessively drawn out arguments.

I also remember managing a Mailman list during the days when half it's
members were on dial-up and advising one of my team members to be
careful about putting full size camera pics into her posts. It wasn't
until the day she put twenty pics in one E-Mail that she learned that
lesson, as well as finding the list no longer of value as half the
members wanted to unsubscribe.

This may indeed be a moderator training issue, that is probably up to
the TDF team to decide. Else this is probably turning into another
silly, excessively drawn out discussion which i have added to with
silly old man reminiscences. Muahaha