[neact] Re: Changes coming

As always Steve, thank you for your efforts and endless patience.

David 


On 2/9/08 1:57 AM, "Stephen Stepenuck" <sstepenuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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