[saymaListserv] Moderator

[Mary Calhoun]

Dear Friends,

SAYMA's listserve software in some places uses the word "moderator" for my role, and in other places "list administrator."  Here are some further details, by way of clarification and/or FYI.
  a.. I prefer the term "list administrator" because "moderator" may suggest that I review all messages for suitability for posting.  I don't. 
  b.. In this sense, sayma at kitenet.net is an unmoderated list. 
  c.. As list administrator I review intercepted spam, provide f/Friends with subscription instructions, and release the legitimate messages occasionally posted by non-subscribers. (sayma at kitenet.net is a subscribers-only list.)
  d.. The list-serve software, I think, allows the list administrator to temporarily block a subscriber's posts.  I have never done this. 
  e.. From time to time postings to SAYMA's listserv have caused distress to, or have been felt to be un-Friendly by, some readers of the list.  Concerns have been raised and solutions proposed, but no policy has been settled on. 
  f.. In 2003 (??) I requested of my supervisor, the SAYMA clerk, that the Administrative Assistant be relieved of the ad hoc task of discerning -- alone -- what should be done in such situations.  From the perspective of a part-time worker, it seemed beyond my job description to read all posts closely enough to make judgements about appropriateness. The "housekeeping" task of reviewing snagged spam messages already runs to about 100 messages/week.  Discernment seemed to me the role of an designated group. 
  g.. I think the clerk agreed to my request, but I don't believe an alternative procedure has been put in place.  Possibly the issue became part of the charge to the Ad Hoc e-Communications Committee. 
  h.. In the interim, I would hope that traditional Friends' practices will be used by appropriate f/Friends to resolve listserve "suitability" concerns.
^o^
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Mary Calhoun, List Administrator sayma at kitenet.net
Administrative Assistant, SAYMA
AdminAsst at sayma.org 
276/ 628-5852
POB 2191, Abingdon VA 24212-2191
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: debra at debrasjohnson.net 
  To: sayma at kitenet.net 
  Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 1:08 PM
  Subject: [saymaListserv] Moderator


  Who is the moderator of this list?  

  Thanks,
  Debra

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