Hi Neil, > As one of those who tries to moderate this list, I can assure you that > I have not a clue (nor interest) to which faction anyone posting here > might belong, or what their agenda might be
Same here. The only one I recognise is SonWon. That everyone else is called Eric means I reject the content, not the poster. I suspect the Erics have enough rejects between them to confirm this. :-) It became even more muddled when all the Erics started posting violations rather than just one! > A separate list for this discussion may eliminate the need for any > moderation, though? It's three or four people that are prepared to keep going on this. Not worth given them a list when they could just all CC each other and keep us out of it. The legal list would still need moderating for when it blows up here again. Oh, and generally, can folks please not mail both the list and the list owners. It means as a moderator I see the email and am then confused whether another moderator has already let it through onto the list. Mailman is little help; it doesn't sort those queued for moderation so it's non-trivial to say "X is rejected, therefore reject all replies to X". This slows moderation, explaining the spate of emails making it through to the list at the moment. Cheers, Ralph.
