Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/02/14/15:19:06
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
> Having a moderator helps to eliminate multiple queries on the same subject.
> If a moderator appends a brief reply in square brackets to a user message
> before letting it go out, that often avoids several wordy replies by users,
> many of which would have quoted the original message in full.
> This has proved valuable in the moderated email groups virus-l AT lehigh DOT edu
> (viruses and antivirals) and tolklang AT dcs DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Tolkien's languages) in
> keeping bulk and amount of messages down.
Moderating the group is all very fine and good, if you can find a
moderator who has the time, and you don't care too much about message
turn-around time. I like the responsiveness of an unmoderated group - if
I get stuck on some weird flakiness of DJGPP, I can often have a fix and
be back to work within 12 hours. That's valuable.
> Digesting is useful to people who have to pay for email at so much per
> message received.
Ah. I didn't think of this...
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