Theos-Talk Archives (April 2008 Message tt00319)

I saw that.

When the first maillist theos-l@vnet.net was setup, I heard that an attempt
was made to control (moderate/censor) it and it failed; the owner refused to
comply.

You may also notice that I have never seen Chris post a single message in
any of the maillists in all past years. I do not blame him.

Nor anyone officially active with the organization either, this includes all
past officials as well. What does it say?

An intelligent reader can draw his/her own conclusions.

We Should be thankful for atleast we have forums where we can speak freely.

mkr

On 4/29/08, Anton Rozman <anton_rozman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   Yes, there is a following statement on the blog regarding the
> moderation:
>
> http://theosophicalsociety.wordpress.com/about/
>
> Anton
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.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><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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