Re[2]: Moderators: Point of Order (Now getting OT)

2001-02-19 Thread David Elliott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Brian, On 19 February 2001 at 23:55:53 -0500 (which was 04:55 where I live) words of wisdom emanated from Brian Clark. MP (sleep? wassat?). BC Apparently, some curious people "lie down" and "drift into a state of BC unconsciousness." I do

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-18 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Marck, @ 12:08:53 AM on 2/17/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (sleep? wassat?). Apparently, some curious people "lie down" and "drift into a state of unconsciousness." Sometimes I walk through the house and notice others practicing this so called "sleep." They get mad when I ask them

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-17 Thread Mike Yetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, at 12:48:17 [GMT +0800], Thomas wrote: MY I suggested that the moderators do this in order to prevent just such MY a multiple spawning. T I'm with Karin here, because the moderators do sleep sometimes T (usually when I'm up in

Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Mike Yetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Bat! listers, Jan just sent a reminder about blank subjects and that prompted me to ask this question. Please note that I didn't reply to the other thread. However, many people do reply to the last message they read rather than

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Karin Spaink
On 17-02-2001 at 01:41, Mike Yetto kindly wrote: many people do reply to the last message they read rather than creating a new thread Fortunately, it is not many people who do so. and my question concerns the proper way to handle this. Should the moderators immediately start a new thread

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Mike Yetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, at 02:34:18 [GMT +0100], Karin Spaink wrote: KS I'd suggest that whoever answers to such a message, takes KS the effort to turn their reply into a new message, thereby KS achieving the goal: the ensuing thread will be pulled out

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mike, On 17 February 2001 at 19:41:28 -0500 (which was 00:41 where I live) Mike Yetto wrote and made these points: MY However, many people do reply to the last message they MY read rather than creating a new thread and my question

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Karin, On 17 February 2001 at 02:34:18 +0100 (which was 01:34 where I live) Karin Spaink wrote and made these points: Does anyone have something else for the moderators to think about this weekend? KS What about sex, life and the meaning of

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Karin Spaink
On 17-02-2001 at 03:01, Marck D. Pearlstone kindly wrote: Mike Yetto wrote and made these points: [how to deal with new postings that are actually sent as a reply to an existing thread - one needs to start a new tread on one's reply] but you have to change both the Subject and the Follow-up

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas
Hallo Mike, On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:48:39 -0500 GMT (17/02/2001, 09:48 +0800 GMT), Mike Yetto wrote: KS While I do realise that in this way we suddenly might see KS two new threads emerge, or perhaps even three, when more KS people answer and create new threads, I don't think it's KS fair for us

Re: Moderators: Point of Order

2001-02-16 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, On 17 February 2001 at 12:48:17 +0800 (which was 04:48 where I live) Thomas wrote and made these points: MY I suggested that the moderators do this in order to prevent just such MY a multiple spawning. T I'm with Karin here, because