[neact] Changes coming

Dear Faithful members of the NEACT e-mail list:
    As you might recall, some time ago the Executive Board voted
that--rather than have a separate list of e-mail addresses available to the
president for messages to the entire membership, and this one for discussion
among the members who joined voluntarily--all members should be added to
this existing discussion list.  For various reasons, this has not yet come
to pass.  
    Several announcements have been made inviting members who do not wish to
belong to such an all-inclusive list to be excised from it before it is
effected.  Happily for NEACT, not one such request has yet been received.

    I do hope to ³take the plunge² and try this expansion soon.  We¹ll be
going from the present 65 ³volunteer² list members?you--to over 400
subscribers.  Thus you can expect a rapid and perhaps substantial increase
in the volume of messages on this list.
  
    The list is now a ³closed-post² list, meaning that only subscribers may
post a message to it.  However, the list is also ³open,² meaning anyone
[including non-NEACT members] may subscribe.  Lastly, the list is presently
³un-moderated² -- posted messages are automatically sent to all list
members. Moving to >400 subscribers will probably lead to some inappropriate
or off-topic messages.   Should that happen inordinately, I shall have to
change the list to a ³moderated² one, which will mean that every message
will have to be approved by the moderator before it goes out to the list.  A
move to ³moderated² will mean a delay in the posting/promulgation of your
message.  That delay could be in seconds or weeks, depending on whether I
was on line when the message was first submitted, or away for a couple of
weeks.  For purposes of speedy communication [and what¹s left of my sanity],
I would much prefer to leave the list an open one, as it has been.
    The list owner [yours truly] has the authority to place any member on
³tempban,² where the person is temporarily banned from posting to the list,
or to outright blacklist the person, if s/he persists in posting
inappropriate messages.  I intend to use that authority.

    So please ³hang in there² as we try this expanded experiment in better
and faster communication for our members to help one another.  I shall try
mightily to minimize any problematic messages, but we might all have to
endure a flurry of messages until things settle down.  Thanks very much for
your wonderful behavior on what has been a nice quiet, but useful, list.
We¹ll see how quiet it remains [hopefully not too quiet, to be sure].

    One last reminder: any reply to this message, or any message to an
e-mail list, goes to everyone on the list.  If you wish to communicate with
an individual sender, you have to change the address accordingly.

Thank you very much for your faith in the NEACT e-mail list.

Best wishes,
Steve


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Steve Stepenuck, Jr.
P.O. Box 101
West Swanzey, NH 03469-0101
603.352.7540
sstepenuck@xxxxxxxxx

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