I edit PNEWS-L and only permit quoting as a preface to their comments. Amazing how that cuts down on so much redundancy. -HR- http://www.shadow.net/~odin [log in to unmask] On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Robert Ponterio wrote: > >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/ >