alice-teacher Do we need to be moderated?

[Don Slater]

You are right, everyone who participates on the list has been very professional, and I have enjoyed the quality of everyone's participation. I have rarely had to "police" any posting because it was inappropriate or unprofessional. Primarily I am watching for these things:

1) Automatic replies from email systems when someone has gone on vacation or their email address has changed for some reason and the message is "bounced back".

2) Inappropriate commercial solicitations

3) We do not post the login / password to www,aliceprogramming.net on this site, at the request of Steve Cooper, who administers that site.

4) Someone will announce that they have a set of resources that they are willing to share. This generally generates a flood of "Could I have a copy of that as well?" When that happens I will try and ask people to direct those requests directly to the source instead of replying to the list. 

Generally almost anything else goes, and I appreciate that the community makes the task relatively easy and enjoyable.

Thank you,
Don Slater

On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:26 PM, "Gamez, Enrique A (172B)" <enrique.a.gamez at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Alice list moderators,
> 
> From what I can see, most people on the Alice list seem to be professional educators – I being the exception.  Why then do you feel this list needs to be "moderated" (I.e. policed)?  How often does an innapropriate post come along from this esteemed group?  In my view, the decision to moderate is  unnecessary, adds additional work for someone, and removes the immediacy of what communication means today among the likes of chat and Twitter, etc.  Please reconsider this decision.  If the decision to go moderated is based on having an .edu host, perhaps the list can be moved to Yahoo Groups or another free hosting option, or the institution can append some kind of disclaimer at the end of posts.  With Yahoo Groups, you can still control who joins the list and whether or not it deserves this level of review.
> 
> [Of course, if you all never hear from me again you'll know what happened!  <wink>]
> -enrique
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