>We're now trying the tactic of fowarding every "warning: mini-disk is full" >message to the list, with a brief description of which logs we are zapping >as a consequence, and a reminder that excessive quoting and frivolous (e.g. >especially "me too" and "thanks" messages) are filling up archive space and >thus driving out substantive posts that are no longer accessible for >logsearches. We have taken to switching to approving all postings for a week whenever the "me-toos" get out of hand. It is really less work because we read everything anyway, and we send off-list suggestions about nettiquette to posters when we see problems. The only real difference is that the problems don't get to the list. Since these "me-toos" tend to multiply like rabbits, preventing them form appearing cuts down on the number that are sent. After things calm down, we switch back to open posting by subscribers. Some subscribers who are having trouble learning to use our posting guidelines are set to REVIEW until it looks like they have figured out what we want. We have made it clear that we will switch our moderating style as we deem appropriate to maintain the focus of discussion. In fact, I think that most people would not even notice the additional "approved-by" line. Thus, the notion that FLTEACH is moderated or un-moderated has lost meaning in our eyes; we have several levels of moderating style. Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Ponterio | [log in to unmask] co-manager of FLTEACH | State Univ. of New York Cortland Foreign Language Teaching Forum ----------------------------------- http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/