Thanks for that explanation, David. I have now been accepted onto the list.
Annabel.
On 5 May 2016, at 21:22, David Griffith <daj.griffith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To be fair to MacVisionaries they have recently suffered from pretty weird
subscribers posting extremely abusive emails. I have never seen such a level
of obscene abuse as has appeared in some of these emails. They have also
suffered people posting mails with odd speech patterns in mail subject lines,
these speech patterns has the sole designed and purpose of crashing
Voiceover on Macs. People who do this sort of thing probably think they are
being clever but doing this to inexperienced mac users who are using the list
to overcome their visual impairment do not need idiots like this making their
life more difficult.
This is probably the same individual who has been joining using different
aliases. These incidents has greatly upset
many members of the list and the moderators needed to act to prevent the
reoccurrence of these problems. . I guess that any open list has dangers that
anti social people may join to disrupt lists with a perverted sense of
enjoyment at seeing others discomforted.
Generally though MacVisionaries is a friendly and respectful list.
Problems like this could unfortunately happen even on this list. Anyway these
repeated issues has made Macvisionaries very cautious of who they allow into
the list so you probably do need to say something about yourselves to make
the Moderator feel confident that they can trust the subscription.
I am still a list member so if anybody wants me to forward details to the
List Moderator then email me details on daj.griffith@xxxxxxxxx and I will
forward this to the list moderators.
David Griffith
On 05/05/2016 20:27, Rajmund wrote:
Hi,
Mac4theblind not only covers Macs, but as long as it is apple, it is on
topic.
Sent from a Braille Sense
----- Original Message -----
From: christopher hallsworth <challsworth2@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016 7:53 pm
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Mac Visionaries List
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No idea. I got the same attitude when I attempted to join. So joined Mac
For THe Blind which is a more open list, still Mac related though. Can't be
doing with owners being choosy about who joins and doesn't. But each to
their own and their list at the end of the day. Rant over sorry.
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I applied to join the Mac Visionaries mailing list as I am a new Mac user.
I got a reply saying the moderator had declined my request. Anyone know
why? I only put my email address in the form, maybe I should have put
more information? Any ideas welcome. Annabell.
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