From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #1020 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Thursday, March 27 2003 Volume 01 : Number 1020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:36:13 -0600 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: [AML] RE: New Mormon Lit Forum (Comp 1) [MOD: This is a compilation post.] >From pchamberlain@westcon.net Tue Mar 25 18:13:44 2003 Would this new forum allow F-bombs. That's what's keeping me from posting more. Peter Chamberlain Senior Estimator Westcon Microtunneling (801) 785-3401 pchamberlain@westcon.net - ---------------------------------------- >From robert@robertslaven.ca Tue Mar 25 19:12:02 2003 Wow. Where to begin. There was so much in digest #1016 (comprised of posts from Saturday 22 to today, Tuesday) that I couldn't let my fingers sit still. This will be #1 of a buttload of posts I'll be making tonight. From: "D. Michael Martindale" > Subject: [AML] New Mormon Lit Forum (was: AML-List Moderator Practices) > RichardDutcher@aol.com wrote: > > But where can I go if I want a little more passion and color in the > > conversation? Is there another forum I don't know about? > > I don't know of one, but it would be a piece of cake to create one. > > It required nine states to ratify the Constitution before it would go > into effect. If nine is good enough for the Constitution, it's good > enough for me. So if nine people will offer to join such a list, I'll > create it. Having spent time on a variety of Mormon discussion groups -- Mormon-l, alt.religion.mormon on Usenet and its successor soc.religion.mormon, Joseph, the old LDS section of the Religion forum on Compuserve yea these many years ago -- I can appreciate the struggle between moderation/censorship and free rein. The biggest difficulty with free rein on any discussion group is that the loudest often hog the spotlight and the quietest often say 'the heck with it' and leave. This problem is squared on any group that has *anything* to do with Mormonism -- and not just because non-LDS or inactive LDS may use the forum to bash the others, but also because Mormons can be pretty darn good at bashing each other. So while there's a place for no-holds-barred discussion, I tend to stay away from it. The only LDS lists I spend any time on are Joseph (where every post isn't moderated, but everyone sticks pretty much to the rules with the occasional prod from the moderators), LDS-Poll (ditto, a political group), here, and a recovery-type mailing list whose identity will be kept secret to protect my privacy. If anyone wants to create another list, that'd be cool. I'd probably check it out. But if it devolves into the kind of thing Mormon-l's become since I first found it a decade or so ago, I probably won't stick around. As for this list, perhaps Our Humble Moderator could consider the possibility of letting the list become more 'self-governing', a la Joseph and LDS-Poll. (Charters for these lists are viewable at http://topica.com/lists/joseph/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lds-poll/files/LDS-Poll%20Charter/lds-poll_cha rter.html, respectively.) The key advantage to going this way -- i.e. not having every single post require the moderator's approval -- is that it'll save the moderator a lot of work and significantly speed up post turnaround time. As for disadvantages: First, what about volume? IIRC, most listserv software lets you put a cap on daily messages, squirting the excess out first thing after midnight (or something like that). That would help. Second, if a really flame-like message popped up, it would go through for all to see. Any 'issues' with the message and its sender would have to be dealt with after the fact. Do we trust each other enough for that? There may be other disadvantages, but I can't think of them. Anyhow, food for thought, eh? Robert Slaven - ----------------------------------- >From jeff.needle@general.com Tue Mar 25 19:44:06 2003 Heck, I'll join. Why not have more mail? Incidentally, there's already a list called mormon-library, where there is a lot of unmoderated discussion. It makes me yearn for AML, it gets kind of heated. But it's fun. And wouldn't detract from participation here one whit. - ---------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle@general.com - ------------------------------------ - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:04:08 -0600 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: [AML] Apologies Folks, Apologies for the list being out of commission today. Will return tomorrow... Jonathan Langford AML-List Moderator - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #1020 *******************************