[Durham INC] What Should Be on the INC Listserv?

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Hello everyone,

Grove Park Community is not currently active with the INC so there is NO ONE speaking on behalf of Grove Park at this time. We are hoping to become active again in 2012. Thank you very much.

Enjoy your holiday.

Adaire Salt 

From: Colin Crossman 
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:47 PM
To: inc-listserv 
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] What Should Be on the INC Listserv?

Regarding the moderation, 

The list is currently setup to only allow members to post. This has been the setup of the list since its inception. Any and all messages sent to the list by non-members are given a "moderation" message, and shunted to a holding-pen.  The amount of spam that goes into that holding-pen is substantial, and so messages that end up there have historically been ignored (sorting through that mess would be a large time commitment).

If an off-list person wants to send a particular message to the list, they can either join the list, ask a member to send it out, or notify a moderator to look for the particular message and send it along.  In addition, since city staff cannot join the list, an effort has been made to ensure that their messages make it through the block, though this is not a perfect system.

There is no moderation of messages sent by list members.

This was setup this way to minimize administrative overhead, and allow the list to function in as much of an automated manner as possible.  As Christine Chamberlain mentioned, operating large high-traffic lists can be a headache without these measures or a full-time moderation staff.  Her observations are accurate.

Yours,
Colin


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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Darius Mercedes Little <Darius.M.Little at alumni.unc.edu> wrote:

  What listserv(s) do you moderate, which have 6,000 and 3,000 members?  Just curious.  Thanks.

  - DML




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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Christine Chamberlain <christinebbd at yahoo.com>
  Sender: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org
  Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:27:24
  To: inc listserv<inc-list at durhaminc.org>
  Reply-To: Christine Chamberlain <christinebbd at yahoo.com>
  Subject: Re: [Durham INC] What Should Be on the INC Listserv?


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