I believe that "moderated" means that the poster has not subscribed to
the mail-list, and therefore those postings have to be sent to a real
live person (a moderator) to be approved before the post can appear on
the list. There have been some debates as to whether subscribing should
be REQUIRED before posting, but at the moment it is not required by the
list rules.
As far as wishing some of these people would provide a useful subject
line, yes! But many just don't know any better, they've never used a
mailing list before, and never worried about the subject line on e-mails
to Aunt Minnie. All you can do is try to help them as much as possible.
Jim Hartley
Datatude wrote:
In another thread, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
Can someone please explain:
1) what makes a message appear as [moderated] (I know that it means
someone
moderated the message, but why does/would that happen)?
I've been wondering the same thing, but have started a new thread so as
not to repeat the sins of other posters ;-) ...
2) What this "YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE" in the subject line (that
buries
the summary in my gmail) means and how it got there (and why people don't
remove it)?
I get the feeling that many folks here simply do not know mailing list
"netiquette" and probably are not to be blamed for their own actions.
But I wonder how many folks (and I'm just about frustrated enough by the
lack of care and thought folks put into their posts here to be counted
among them) simply mass-delete all the messages that have no Subject, or
that say "YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE", or that give a completely
uninformative subject such as "Help Me!" whereas they would be *so* much
more likely to get a proper and useful answer if they instead bothered
to summarize details such as "Cannot print after upgrading to XP SP2".
I suspect that the msgs with that strange subject line are being entered
in some kind of web form or by clicking a mailto: link from someone's
page. If the former, please start putting up a *blank* subject field and
use a javascript to verify that the author has entered a Subject. If
the latter, please make the Subject field blank in the mailto link
because at the very least most folks email programs will put up an alert
reminding them to enter a subject if the field is left blank. Of course
that alert could be overriden ... nothing in the world is truly
bulletproof but we can at least try to tidy up a bit ...
kazar
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