3 Feb
2002
3 Feb
'02
5:53 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lawson" <jpl15(a)panix.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: SOME ITEMs from another AOLamer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Robert Schaefer wrote:
me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lawson" <jpl15(a)panix.com>
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Stan Sieler wrote:
> >
[major snippage]
>
> I personally don't mind hitting DEL every week or two, but that's just
> The biggest problem I see with moderation is the
latency on this list is
> high
> enough as it is-- witness the Bondwell. One moderator couldn't possibly
> keep the messages flowing as fast as they come in. Perhaps a web
gateway,
If I understand the 'moderation' idea properly, it would apply only to
posts from non-subscribed sources.. for those properly subscribed, Things
would continue as they do now. So the entire message traffic would not
flow past the moderation point; only them Furrinerz a-tryin' to rustle 'em
up a few of our cows, dang varmints!
Given that fairly low level of messages, it shouldn't be too onerous of
a task.
I'm sorry, I was unclear. My 1st point was that moderation will add a
variable but possibly significant delay to posts by non list-members.
People who might have classic hardware that must go *now*, if not to a good
home than a bad one. Latency is already pretty bad (at least here-- anyone
else?), case in point that Bondwell that went somewhere else. Perhaps
another collector got it, I don't know. My 2nd point was that moderation
will give an advantage to the moderator(s) who are interested in the
presumed hardware.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I really don't care about the volume of
spam I get thru this list. I'm pretty sure that they will be delt with by
others far better than I could do myself. I only offered because I do see
them as issues that should be at least examined, before a major decision
like moderation, even limited as it is in this case, is made.
I still volunteer to put my time where my bytes are... a suitable
message diversion scheme would have to be worked out, but I'm game to give
it a try.
Just for interest, another list I am on is just now going through the
"Reply-To:Originator -or- Reply-To:List" debate... yawnnnn!
<insert new OT thread here>
Cheers
John
Bob