John A wrote:
> A small point of order
>
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>> It is difficult to specify what "fair" or "unfair" moderation means
>> without getting tediously legalistic. To avoid endless haggling about
>> this, we formulate our policy thus:
>>
>> Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if ANY moderator finds
>> the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and
>> not gratuitously rude.
>
> So, for example, we could expect that a gratuitous posting comparing
> "The Great
> Global Warming Swindle" to denial of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor
> would
> fall foul of this rule?
It might be worth adding a bit of a disclaimer to the "About this group"
posting, to the effect that there is a certain amount of arbitrariness
in the decisions, and genuine mistakes can be made for a number of
reasons - at the worst extreme, Google's system doesn't even allow
reading of some messages (at least via my browser) prior to any decision
being made!
In the final analysis, it's only a mailing list. Feel free to overwhelm
the occasional dodgy message with interesting and constructive
contributions of your own - that's not merely a snark at John A for the
tone of his first(?) contribution but an open invitation to all readers.
James
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