Mr. IDRIS MUHAMMED, Zennith Bank Ltd, Lagos,Nigeria. Dear Friend, I am Mr.Idris Muhammed, Bank Manager of Zennith Bank, Lagos, Nigeria. I have urgent and very...
idrismuhamme@...
Feb 3, 2003 11:51 pm
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i guess most writers do some kind of miscellaneous writing. as in fiction writers write letters as do newspaper reporters...
I recently changed my email server and attempted to post to mwm. I got the usual welcome message and instructions. I put the keyword into the ... I'm not sure...
Nevermind. My line wrapping put the "newsgroups" header up one line and the bot apparently couldn't read it that way. I corrected it and the post went through....
... ok, thanks for letting us know you fixed it. ps that thread has been closed by a mod already, you might want to try again with another header......
... Grrr. This is frustrating. I've dropped my premium USP and am reading usenet through my ISP, and they don't carry mwm. Time to start e-mailing tech...
... It went through before Gerald's post closing the thread showed up. Inasmuch as my post was on topic, I guess there was no problem with it. In fact, I got a...
Would be cool if instead of letting the discussion of moderation policy spill into m.w and annoy m.writers we could discuss the issues here. FWIW, I don't...
Sal wrote ... I tend to agree -- I think it was the words and "attitude" he portrayed. He claims it was humor, and I can see that it was, but he hasn't set a...
lzrdgirl
scribblinlizard@...
Mar 6, 2003 12:43 am
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... I'm neither John nor Gerald, nor do I play either of them on TV or elsewhere. But I'll comment, anyway. :-) Yeah, I can see the funny side of the initial...
... I can't. The post was heavy-handed and leaden. Needed some yeast farts or something. Plus, the group hasn't reached a critical mass and is relatively quiet...
... <...> ... I'm confused by the above. The thread was closed. Robert took his beef to MW and persists in insisting that his purpose is to demonstrate...
lzrdgirl
scribblinlizard@...
Mar 6, 2003 2:08 am
80
... <snip> ... I determined long ago that I would not respond or explain as a moderator on specific posts or individual posters. For one thing, while we...
geraldclough
clough@...
Mar 6, 2003 2:14 am
81
... <snip> And rightly so. Usenet posters are all a bunch of squalling babies. I don't know why these clowns have dragged you into a thread regarding a problem...
grapeshot03
grapeshot03@...
Mar 6, 2003 2:52 am
82
... Ah. The confusion is that I haven't been in mw at all, lately. Much too busy for newsgroups these days. It's tax time. Robert also posted another...
Bravo for the moderators. I'll vote for them doing whatever they need to to make things easy on themselves. They don't need to decide who is a troll and who...
... A good suggestion for the mods. Maybe the mods could have some basic boilerplate to use whenever a thread is closed, directing people to the Yahoo! group. ...
... Hmm. I distinctly remember he covered this -- ie, got someone to watch over his autobot -- before he left. But for the life of me, I can't remember who it...
At 01:40 AM 3/6/2003 +0000, you wrote: /snip/ ... I only saw one more post there, "Subject: This is now my group--part two" and then another by Gerald closing...
... From: Carol Flynt To: mwmDiscussion@yahoogroups.com Sent: 3/6/03 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [mwm@Yahoo] Re: Discussion of moderation policy ... By the way, John...
... You, me, we don't have to take part in a whole flamewar and without fuel, it will die. In fact, I think that's why the subject was brought to m.w, because...
... We do, ... Here's what your enlightened mods don't want your sensitive eyes to see. I posted this to alt.fiction.original and misc.writing also. In both...
grapeshot03
grapeshot03@...
Mar 6, 2003 7:40 pm
94
... "Articles that exceed the bounds of common courtesy -- e.g., personal attacks against other posters -- are never acceptable, no matter what the context of...
... What ... personal ... what ... article ... It's not a personal attack. It's three lines from a WIP. But the fact that you think it's a personal attack...
grapeshot03
grapeshot03@...
Mar 6, 2003 8:05 pm
96
... From the mod policy: "Moderators should bear in mind that the purpose of moderation is to maintain focussed discussion in an atmosphere of mutual respect....
... purpose ... must ... uniformly ... article ... Puh-leeze. You might notice that even Stan didn't have any problems with it in mw. It was a good, sincere...
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