Inline and somewhat abridged.

On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Ken Causey klcausey@gmail.com wrote:

Casey,

I hope you don't mind my taking this opportunity to also call out a few others who have let their lists get behind on moderation.

Not in the least. Sorry guys! I got us in twuble...

It sounds like you have a valid excuse and so get a pass, but I believe these others deserve a rap on the wrist.

There's no such thing as a valid excuse. I'll sign up for that wrist-rapping.

If you are not going to moderate please set the list to discard all messages from all non-subscribers.

Casey: please see in-line comment below.

Done.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r@gmail.com wrote:

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Unfortunately, I can't see the list, so there's no way for me to know whether or not there's any legitimate posts in there.

You should be receiving a forward of each message if you are properly set as a list moderator. This can be annoying but if you take the time to look through these and, while you are unable to moderate, set aside those that are valid then you have the information you need when you can moderate again to either quickly find the relevant messages or to give me if more manual intervention is required.

Ah! That's what that's for;) I setup an address to catch all that noise. If I am ever unable to get into the moderator interface again, I'll look here. I'm still new to this game, my apologies.

Out of curiosity, have you already nuked the queue? I can check to see if there's anything legit using that address if you haven't blown it out already.

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FWIW, I haven't seen a legit post in there yet. Clearing it out is probably the best plan.

In the future I will be more vigilant about handling this on a weekly basis; my Internet was out for awhile and it took forever to get it fixed. I probably should have tried handling it on my phone, but I didn't think of that (d'oh!)

This looks like an excuse. There aren't valid ones. I offer them from time to time as explanations, but I don't expect the explanation to excuse my failure.

It's just "this is what happened" in debrief. Dig it? I stay culpable, even with explanation.

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I'm really sorry about the inconvenience. Lesson learned on my part.

Thanks again,

Casey

Understood. And you are welcome,

Which is again much appreciated. I know you want to release the box-admin role and get on with it, so I'm bummed that I had to bother you.

Ken

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