Hi All,
Thanks to Dave Hamill, Tom's nephew, Steve Birch and I now have
administrative responsibility for the group. We are asking for two
volunteers to take on Moderator duties. Having four moderators may
seem overkill but it will ensure that new members will be able to post
without waiting too long for their first post to be approved and will
keep the group spam-free even when one or two of us can't get online
for a few days.(As happend to me last week when I pulled the end off
my antennae wire)
Currently the group is set up so that a new members first post must be
approved by a moderator before it is sent to the list. Moderators will
receive an email notice that a post requires approval with a link to
the pending post. The moderator may then review the post and either
approve or reject it and, at the same time, either approve the new
member for unmoderated posting or not. Moderators will have the
authority to delete posts that are in violation of the groups posting
policies and to recommend that persistent spammers or members who
repeatedly violate the group's posting policies be banned on the very
rare occasions that this occurs.
To give you an idea of the volume we are talking about, since Feb
20th, there have been 9 posts requiring approval and three new
members. Not a lot, but two new members had to wait 7 and 10 days
respectively for their first posts to be approved because there was no
moderator.
If you volunteer for moderator duty you can expect four or five more
email messages a week. We will all get the same messages and whoever
gets there first will take care of it.
Want more information than you really need for this? Check Yahoo's
Moderator Central http://new.groups.yahoo.com/moderatorcentral
So, if you want to give something back to the Vega community or are
just interested in the mechanics of the Yahoo online communities
here's your opportunity. If you're shy send me a private email.
Mahalo nui
Chuck Rose
SV Lealea, V1860
Honolulu (Friday Harbor, WA)
htp://americanvega.org
Thanks to Dave Hamill, Tom's nephew, Steve Birch and I now have
administrative responsibility for the group. We are asking for two
volunteers to take on Moderator duties. Having four moderators may
seem overkill but it will ensure that new members will be able to post
without waiting too long for their first post to be approved and will
keep the group spam-free even when one or two of us can't get online
for a few days.(As happend to me last week when I pulled the end off
my antennae wire)
Currently the group is set up so that a new members first post must be
approved by a moderator before it is sent to the list. Moderators will
receive an email notice that a post requires approval with a link to
the pending post. The moderator may then review the post and either
approve or reject it and, at the same time, either approve the new
member for unmoderated posting or not. Moderators will have the
authority to delete posts that are in violation of the groups posting
policies and to recommend that persistent spammers or members who
repeatedly violate the group's posting policies be banned on the very
rare occasions that this occurs.
To give you an idea of the volume we are talking about, since Feb
20th, there have been 9 posts requiring approval and three new
members. Not a lot, but two new members had to wait 7 and 10 days
respectively for their first posts to be approved because there was no
moderator.
If you volunteer for moderator duty you can expect four or five more
email messages a week. We will all get the same messages and whoever
gets there first will take care of it.
Want more information than you really need for this? Check Yahoo's
Moderator Central http://new.groups.yahoo.com/moderatorcentral
So, if you want to give something back to the Vega community or are
just interested in the mechanics of the Yahoo online communities
here's your opportunity. If you're shy send me a private email.
Mahalo nui
Chuck Rose
SV Lealea, V1860
Honolulu (Friday Harbor, WA)
htp://americanvega.org