Klarinet Archive - Posting 000742.txt from 2003/04
From: "Bill Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] the last of my useless crap.
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:41:18 -0400
An oxymoron, based on your chiding attempt to moderate the content of
Rebecca's e-mail.
Once you begin instructing someone how to self-moderate, they aren't doing
that anymore, are they? What you really want is some standard, or absent
that, participants to self-moderate the way you do, a process that begins
and ends with you.
So the best way to approach this is to suggest a standard, and then have it
included in the welcoming e-mail automatically sent out when people
subscribe. "This is a listserve about the clarinet. Discussions of hamsters
are not encouraged, unless, of course, they play the clarinet. Or are
possibly used as a swab."
In fairness, you do raise a good point about what is appropriate on a
listserve such as this. And that's fine. I didn't consider Tony Pay's
scatological remarks about Americans a few months back to be an appropriate
rejoinder to some commentary going on at the time, but I have since learned
that the English, despite their charm, still resent losing America to Mel
Gibson. We had quite the set-to about that one.
But Rebecca's hamster e-mails are so innocuous that I wonder why they even
surfaced on your radar.
William T. Semple
Office: 202-364-2466
Home: 540-364-4823
Cell: 540-903-6645
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: RE: [kl] the last of my useless crap.
> > From: Bill Semple [mailto:wsemple@-----.com]
>
> > THIS IS AN UNMODERATED LISTSERVE.
>
> I would rather it be considered a self-moderated listserv.
>
> Mark C. (who _does_ wear underwear, but chooses not to consider it
> "panties").
>
>
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