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Da udder ower/moderator said:

> >So list, what do you think?  Should we air out the dirty laundry here?
> >If not, how should these things be handled?
> >
> >Richard Masoner

Bro. Henry Bunch said:
> Maybe as you read the list or posts as they come through you might 
> discover that a brother or sister is violating netequit.

Currently, the list is *unmoderated*.  Meaning the posts sent to H-F
just sail directly past us to the listproc and are distributed.  We 
get no advance *look* at a post before normal distribution.

> If that is so, send him or her a personal as to what is acceptable.
> If that does not work, require him or her to file through either one of
> you.  If they persist consider asking them to only read or completely desist.

That's why we're having to perform *damage control* right now.  Or in the
case of discussion of H-F Netiquette guidelines and H-F Workshops, we're
trying to squeeze in a "gram" of prevention to get a "kilogram" of cure.

(Heh, heh, heh.... It's kinda fun to turn english measurements into 
metric units of measure and see how the cliche's change....  "Give them
a millimeter and they take a kilometer..." is one of my other favorites)

Another reason for incentive to be a *self-moderated* group is that 
slanderous and libelous material posted to a *moderated* list legally
makes the moderators accountable for what's distributed.  With the thought
we have editorial control to stop or to allow a post to be distributed.
If something is libelous and slanderous, a moderator can be sued for material
posted if the posts requred an APPROVAL before distribution.  If there's
slanderous or libelous material in a post with an unmoderated list, the
burden of posting isn't upon the moderators because they didn't control 
the individual message distribtion like we could with a message-by-message
APPROVE or DISCARD of posts.

Bro. Tyler 
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