Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is this list unmoderated?

On Jun 3, 2011, at 01:28 , plino wrote:

> It is benevolently moderated in the sense that real spam and commercial
> spammers are eliminated. 

Correct.
> But I haven't noticed any post from a real user being eliminated or any user
> banned.

Well, by definition, you wouldn't!  :)
> I guess some of the off-topic can be annoying but that is the price of
> freedom of speech ;)

This is exactly the situation.  In the OOo and LibO world, a moderator is a final spam filter.  We 
cannot move an email sent to users to, say, discuss if it is more appropriate there.  We cannot ban 
a user although I suppose we could warn one, but what's the point of a warning one can't enforce?  
On the LibO list we cannot yet even make changes to, say, the subject line, to indicate that it has 
been moderated and that the OP must be included in the list of recipients if (s)he is to see the 
reply.  It's my understanding that OOo moderators can do this, and I hope we will one day be able 
to also.

Personally I think mailing lists are so last century and nerdy, and that we should be using a forum 
which non-technical users like, and then there would be some justification for calling us 
moderators.  Unfortunately tptb are also so last century and nerdy!  :)  But as long as we have the 
mailing list form, being a final spam filter is something I can do to advance the software I use 
and like, which development work I can't.

//James
One of the moderators
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