[neact] Re: Changes coming

HI David,
    Thank you for your support.
    It is nice to hear from you, as always.

Happy New Year to you and yours!
Steve


You wrote:

> 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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