List Moderation, recent threads and New Forum

Heather Nagey heather at runrev.com
Mon Apr 10 07:23:31 EDT 2006


Dear Folks,

The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated...

I merely have a family and, gasp, a life outside Runtime at weekends! I 
know, that's a terrible thing to say. I'm most grateful to Lynn for his 
dedication and monitoring of the list over the weekend, but I'm still 
here and still listmom.

So guys and gals, here it is: Waaaaayyyy too much noise to signal 
ratio. It's taken me hours just to get up to speed on the discussion 
for the last two days, and how much more do I know about using 
Revolution? Almost nothing! Have a thought for the poor newbie, 
desperately trying to figure out this wonderful new product s/he's just 
downloaded! While the discussion on what is or is not a bug is 
interesting, its not directly related to using Revolution. Who is or is 
not moderating the list is definitely off topic, psychology is a huge 
and fascinating subject but does not assist anyone in their coding 
efforts, foster children are wondrous things but unless they are coding 
in Revolution a couple of thousand list members don't need to know 
about them... and on several occasions I have specifically mentioned 
that wine is not a list topic! It must be the spring in the air.

If you read a post that aggravates you, the proper response is to 
complain to the list mom (me) NOT to perpetuate the thread on the list.

If you want to talk about things that do not relate to coding in 
Revolution, if you are going to self detonate if you don't get it out, 
if those fingers just won't stay off the keyboard, we have a great, 
shiny, beautiful new solution, just for you. Use the forum!

http://forums.runrev.com

Select the appropriate, off topic subforum, and post it there.

NOTE: This is not an invitation to trade insults on the forum!! Please, 
maintain the same good manners and courtesy we have asked of you and by 
and large received over the years on this list. If someone offends you, 
tell them, not us. Washing dirty linen in public is never an edifying 
sight.

We really are going to moderate this list more strictly now. Those that 
still wish to use it, don't need to read through several hours worth of 
dubious off topic posts just to find useful information they need. Off 
topic = Forum. Rudeness= Not In Public.

Thanks for the links to the forum-email addon option. We'll look into 
it, and let you all know what we can do.

Please don't respond to this post on the list. Respond to me, 
heather at runrev.com, if you have something you need to say.

warm regards to all,

Heather

Heather Nagey, Customer Support Manager
Runtime Revolution Ltd
www.runrev.com




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