Dear girlsown, I'm popping up briefly to announce a new girlsown administration policy.
When the Head Prefect (or other admin person) has asked that a discussion be stopped, or declared it off-limits we will allow a reasonable amount of time for the announcement to percolate through everyone's email systems. If, after that time, a list member continues to post on that subject we will change their list status to "moderated". This means that all their posts will be held pending administration approval. Moderation will give list admins the ability to enforce the request to stop a discussion. Anything the list member posts which is still on topic will be approved as soon as possible. Unacceptable posts will be rejected with an explanation sent to the poster. I would expect that the moderation period would be something like a week. May I emphasise that moderation is intended to be a tool to help us control discussions which have got out of hand. It is something that will happen behind the scenes. A list member who is being moderated will be notified each time a post is held for approval. They may notice a delay in posts appearing on the list if an administrator is not available right away. Girlsown administrators will be notified that there is a post waiting for approval. The general list should not notice anything at all. I have set my own status to moderated, so this message has passed through the moderation process. (Exciting! While the message was waiting for approval, I was notified AND I was offered the opportunity to cancel the message. This is the second time I'm sending this message out.) Thanks to all girlsown members for maintaining such a great list atmosphere 99.999% of the time. Anita Graham -- ________________________________________ Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girlsown/faq-0.htm
