Aaron Sherber wrote:
On Thu, August 25, 2005 2:51 pm, dhbailey said:
He does it as a labor of love, and if he happens to be away on vacation,
so be it.
I don't agree with you. When you agree to moderate a list, that comes with
certain responsibilities, one of which is being available to handle issues
like this.
I would suggest that there is a differrence between "moderating" a list,
and "hosting" it, in that the former implies some effort to monitor
content and keep posts on topic, while former is more on the order of
"sure, I'll provide the facilities for what you wish to do." I
understand this to be an unmoderated list, and Henry's role to be a
host, rather than a moderator.
Henry has a right to go on vacation, of course, but then he
should designate someone to moderate in his absence.
Also, in years past Henry has publicly asked the listmembers to let his
employers at SHSU know the value of his efforts in making the list
available, since I gather that "extra-curriculars" like this have some
effect on his position there. Though I think it's been a couple of years
since he's done this.
I suspect, more than any value to his position at SHSU, the request to
let listmembers know of the value of the list is so that his employers
will continue to devote the bandwidth and disk space to allow it to be
hosted.
If you want a moderated list (and I don't I frankly appreciate the
occasional forays into Schenkerian analysis and other arcane, tangential
and off topic posts, besides on the whole each of us does a pretty good
job of maintining out own discipline), there are a number of options
available, but I suspect Henry is not going to be willing to be the
moderator, and as a state school in Texas, where there is already a
signficiant budget crunch, the University may well not agree to let an
outsider moderate, either.
I would note, that although I once considered purchase of a Ricoh 2610,
I did not follow through; and as a WIN user, I have little interest in
MAC OS issues, even if they do pertain to Finale. The number of posts
in the past week on other issues of little interest to me far outweigh
the one or two posts a day from a fellow who neglected to go "nomail"
when he sent his computer to the byte ward. Consider this: the nibbles
we deal with by deleting his one message a day is little compared to the
byte he's going to feel at the time he pays the bill.
ns
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