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Ralph said: > Let's see. In today's Ercoupe Technical Digest there are a > couple of Tach posts, a TEST post, Instrument Template, and > two posts about GA user fees. > > Half of the posts are not technical at all, and belong in Hangar > Flying. Ralph, So, by your count, there are four posts about Coupe-specific technical issues, one TEST post and two about aviation-specific-keeping GA flying. Looking back further, I see 13 TECH messages that are specifically tech subjects. I found five messages on the GA user fees (clearly marked in the subject line) which are related to our ability to fly. Then there was your message concerning list procedures. That sounds like a pretty good percentage on-subject. When we split the lists, we settled on trying to restrict social stuff and non-aviation political stuff (which we discourage) to FLYIN. All the stuff you mention is on-topic. Ralph said: > What does it take to make the Technical list live up to its name > and billing, and become Technical again AND moderated? > Well, first we need some real moderators that would screen out > the fluff posts. Then this would be a true Technical list again. > Plus, perhaps the moderators could trim the replies so they don't > contain an entire Digest list repeated with two lines of new > material. Ralph, I've got to agree that it's a lot more polite for people to trim their responses, quoting just the items needed. Usually, I quote nothing or just enough. In this response, I've quoted you more completely than I usually would. I don't agree that TECH was ever a purely technical list - not at any time. We allowed aviation related discussions, aviation-specific politics, Coupe-tech, aircraft mechanical and flying technique. It doesn't look to me like we need to have the list moderated. I'm not seeing very many off-topic postings. May I suggest that we strongly encourage people to make sure the subject matches the contents, changing the subject as needed. Then you can simply not read the subjects in which you are not interested. Heck, I only read about 1/2 of the message traffic on TECH - I discriminate based on the subject line. Forcing moderation on every message would impose a delay of from minutes to hours to a day before a posted message popped up on the list. We are not having a problem worth that penalty. Please, just look at the subject line and don't read what you don't want to read. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
