Theos-Talk Archives (April 2008 Message tt00318)

Yes, there is a following statement on the blog regarding the 
moderation:

http://theosophicalsociety.wordpress.com/about/

Anton

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
>
> Spam has been a real problem. Moderation about admission of new 
subscribers
> is necessary to avoid spammers. It is the moderation of the message 
postings
> that I was commenting on.
> 
> mkr
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Anton Rozman <anton_rozman@...>
> wrote:
> 
> >   To compare the limitations of the new blog with those of these 
mail-
> > lists one has to check if posts and comments of blog's subscribers
> > are moderated. Namely, also theos_talk and theos_l have a 
limitation
> > in this sense that posting is limited to members only.
> >
> > This limitation is quite indispensable as otherwise we would have
> > countless number of posts advertising certain pills and certain 
organ
> > enlargement methods and so on.
> >
> > For instance, I had a phpBB forum on my site and had to remove it
> > because there were about 10 false registrations per day as certain
> > people wanted to collect e-mail addresses for their advertising
> > purposes and to directly advertise their offer. Now I have a 
Yahoo!
> > group and a special contact form for those who want to join to
> > prevent direct false registrations. There are anyway about 20 spam
> > messages through that form per day but do not affect the mail 
list.
> >
> > Anton
> >
> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>, 
MKR
> > <mkr777@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I visited the new Forum/Blog and there is some useful 
information
> > in it.
> > >
> > > However, on a closer reading, I found out the following:
> > >
> > > 1. It is a moderated (censored) forum.
> > >
> > > 2. Chris is too close to the TS in America administration. Hence
> > there are
> > > limits to his independence when moderation issues come up.
> > >
> > > 3. Moderated forums generally are not popular in the Internet. 
You
> > may have
> > > good interest from those who toe the official line. It should be
> > recalled,
> > > some years ago, there was a maillist ts-l, owned and moderated 
by
> > TSA which
> > > fell on its face.
> > >
> > > 4. Even in unmoderated forums such as theos-talk and theos-l, 
they
> > tend to
> > > be self-moderating without the interference of the owner. Any
> > unreasonable
> > > message posted do bring strong response from other readers and 
that
> > > itself makes it recalliberating. It is extremely rare that the
> > owner had to
> > > intervene. In such cases, the poster is banned from posting.
> > >
> > > So when you read the msgs in the blog, keep the above in view.
> > >
> > > In view of the above reasons, you will find very valuable
> > information on
> > > theos-talk and theos-l which you will not find anywhere else.
> > >
> > > mkr
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
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> >
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