-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Petersen [IP] wrote: ... IP> Don't you think you are taking your role here a little too IP> seriously? After all, we are not talking trade secrets here or IP> national security. I have been a member of scores of mailing-lists IP> in the ten years I've had access to e-mail and I've never seen a IP> list-mom have need of proving his identity. Nor have I ever IP> experienced anyone posing as a false list-mom. Is that a common IP> problem on the TB lists?
I've been thinking about this and had at one juncture decided to sign the messages with moderatorial input or interjections. I would occasionally fail to sign. I'll stick to just signing all of them. IP> Of course, there's nothing wrong with the odd PGP signature now IP> and then in the course of explaining or discussing TB's features. IP> But just because TB has many features does not mean we all have to IP> use every feature on every message to the list. You don't have. No one is saying you should use them. It's just that no is saying you shouldn't either. Marck gave what I consider a valid reason for signing. If you consider it taking his moderating too seriously then that's OK. Others think otherwise and like them and us, you're perfectly entitled to your opinion. IP> The "flow" of a mailing list is very important - being able to IP> easily and quickly follow a conversation thread. I agree. IP> Interruptions in the form of unneccessary felicitations, dates, IP> quotes, cookies and signatures just make the conversations less IP> easy to follow and thus less useful for everyone involved. Well I could make some adjustments there. How's my intro line for instance? Do you like it? :-) I can't shorten my signature any more though and it's well within the 6 line netiquette limit. I think you need to give us some slack here. ;-) IP> The TB lists are some of the "noisiest" I've experienced in this IP> respect, which is rather ironic, since we are here to discuss an IP> email client that basically is a tool to make communication IP> easier, quicker and more pleasurable! It's nice to keep things short and to the point here but I think you're swinging the pendulum way into the other direction. - -- Allie C Martin -- List Moderator and fellow end user PGPKey: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=2B0717E2&Body=%20 �TB! v1.60c on Windows XP 5.1.2600 _ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE8vbaTV8nrYCsHF+IRArc8AJ4jgryWIEFefUh6OfBA9z2a7WKStQCdHtn/ yTpeHgMi4MWy8dWNTRxZSGQ= =fz04 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
