warning glitches & "netiquette"/ RE: ADMIN: Off-Topic (was: RE: Do not belive MUSH and your "popcorn"

Comrads, amigos & kindred beings in this universe,

   (and/or other temporal/spatial/mystical/imaginal realities),

Well... no, er... maybe .... who knows.....?

Bruce is the guy that owns Listguru/Fatcity. Oracle-L is only one of many lists operated by Listguru/Fatcity. Jared moved Oracle-L to Listguru/Fatcity a while ago, so Oracle-L is (conceptually?) still "owned" by Jared, but he relies on Bruce to enforce list policies.

Sorta like "logical" database design and "physical" database design.

Besides the more or less usual list rules (for unmoderated lists) that were carried over from the "old" Oracle-L (@suny.edu) days, and a few things along the lines of his own personal preferences/etc. (the more or less defunct ban on politically incorrect humor), Jared is going to develop and promulgate list rules/policies in conjunction with the requirements & feedback of the owner/administrator (Bruce) of the system hosting the list.

Having been involved (as "moderator", "owner", etc.) for several years in a variety of different lists, some of which get quite controversial, and having been threatened with lawsuits when people get really upset over such silly garbage on such lists, I have noticed that even when a list administrator/owner/moderator calls a thread off, it can sometimes takes hours, or even a few days, for it to actually stop.

In some cases this isn't necessarily because people are flaunting the rules and continuing to violate the administrator's warning, but because they are just responding to earlier messages, having not yet seen (or perhaps even received in the case of mail delivery lags on some systems) the warning from the administrator yet.

regards,
ep

On 17 Apr 2001, at 11:15, Mohan, Ross wrote:

> Wow, I guess Jared was fired, eh?
>
> ;->
>

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