On Wednesday 23 February 2011 04:30:01 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 2/23/11, William F. Maddock wrote: > > With a forum, somebody has to own > > secure, and maintain a website (which is neither easy, nor free), > > and individual users do not have the democracy of moderating what > > gets into their access and what does not. > > Having owned some forums for very nearly 5 years I have no foggiest > idea what you are talking about. > > > If you want into the forum you have to trust > > that someone serving as a moderator has at least minimally > > similar ideas with you as to what is allowable and/or appropriate > > (which always results in spats, bans, and other such > > unpleasantnesses). > > There is this absolutely standard thing called Terms of Use that is > filled by a forum administrator. It lists things that are allowable > and things that are not allowable. When you register, you agree to > you, or you don't (and then you don't register). > > So you never heard of bans in mailings lists, apparently. Would you > like to know more about it, with examples and background history? > :) > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I don't know if this mailing list is pre-screened but I do know it is free from all the crud I see on some popular usenet newsgroups, AKA forums. By the time I scroll through all the ads for fashion knockoffs and pictures of Indian movie stars I probably have missed some important posts that have been crowded off the front pages. So kudos to the managers of this list whoever they may be. If a Scribus newsgroup is established someone had better take on the task of screening all the posts in advance. I am one of four moderators for the mailing list self-publishing at yahoogroups.com and we have a tough time keeping up with the load. We have a small group of prolific posters who are constantly pushing to see how far they can go before their post gets bounced. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
