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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Sandra's idea of a moderated list

From: heyj_-at-_adan.kingston.net (Herb Jones)
Date: 23 Feb 1998 17:40:28 -0500

At 07:45 PM 2/22/98 GMT, you wrote:
>On 22 Feb 1998 11:52:47 -0500, russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell
>McOrmond) wrote:
>
>>
>>  I have wondered whether or not we want to just riddicule the people who 
>>for some odd reason have thought that this is a medical forum, or try to 
>>direct them to the right place.  I have tried replying to each one and 
>>trying to direct them to flora.ask-doctor (Which I can only assume is 
>>where they indended to go), but this does not seem to be helping.
>>
>>  There seem to be a growing number of people who are getting onto the 
>>Internet and dramatically need all forms of help - learing to read seems 
>>to be a basic problem for many users.
>>
>>*frustrated*
>
>At this point, I think the group needs to be moderated to prevent the
>ask doctor posts. My biggest concern is that people posting the
>medical questions have heard that the service is confidential and are
>mistakenly posting into a public forum. It makes me uncomfortable, and
>I feel pulled to save them from their own foolishness in not
>thouroughly checking out where they are supposed to post before
>posting. 
>
>I know that there is likely noone able to afford the time to act as
>moderator for the group. Would there be a possibility that a
>trustworthy group of people could be found to share moderation though,
>perhaps on a rotating schedule of some kind. I could help as long as
>it weren't my total responsibility. The aim would be to filter out
>only the ask doctor messages, send a set reply to those posts
>redirecting them to the appropriate address, and approving everything
>else.
>
>sph
>sandrap@flora.org
>http://www.flora.org/sandra/  
>Homeschooling in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>http://www.flora.org/hbln/
>
>

I think this is a good idea. There do not seem to be a lot of mistaken
posts to this list. I would be willing to help moderate it on a rotating
basis, say a month about.

Perhaps a stock reply could be available to send by return email giving
details on the purpose of this list plus information about how to contact
the source they desire.

herb

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