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I'm personally not one way or the other in this rather mundane matter, and I agree with Hartmut's comments. Additionally, I consider it reprehensible for any Couper to revert to name- calling another Couper, e.g., "Nazi", "jerk", no matter what side of an issue each is on.
Don Bowen
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> Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] Re: Moderating Tech
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:35:50 +0200
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> Ralph.
> The list was moderated for some time.
> As an effect it took days for some of my tech questions to pass the
> censorship .
> That made the list very inefficient. When I have a technical problem, I most
> likely need an answer or advice very soon.
> I like the immediate response of the list as it is now and I prefer the
> discussion board not being filtered by someone I don't know.
> I am surrounded by plenty of control freaks here in Germany already and the
> list is my resort to sanity.
> So please don't break it.
>
> The few occasions of some folks abusing the list are handled professionally
> and usually don't bother me much.
> If you subscribed to the digest list and don't like the messages that are
> not "technical discussions about maintaining and flying Ercoupes" by your
> standard, then subscribe to the individual message list where you can
> personally delete the messages that you find inappropriate. You would have
> to do that anyway when you are the moderator.
> That should fix your problem.
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>
> Hartmut, N3330H
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> From: "Ralph Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 4:51 PM
> Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] Re: Moderating Tech
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> To the posters who suggested deleting unwanted posts: fair enough, but the
> fact you didn't follow it shows that there are posts that you don't like and
> are not willing to simply delete...thus making a case for moderating the
> list.
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> And deleting posts only works for those getting individual posts, not for
> the digest list.
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> To those who suggested that non-Tech stuff was appropriate:
>
> "Tech is a moderated list for just technical discussions about maintaining
> and flying Ercoupes. A moderated list means that anything that doesn't meet
> this requirement will not be posted."
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> And to the several who basically told me "atta boy", thanks.
>
> Again, why not simply moderate the list?
>
> Ralph Finch
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