SHADO@egroups temporarily in moderation mode

Hi All,

Since I was a bit concerned about the direction the discussion was
taking last night, I put the list into "moderation" mode before I
went to sleep. That means that no post gets distributed without me
approving it first. And now that I see what messages were posted
overnight, I'm glad I did that. I rejected 9 of the 14 messages sent
overnight. These messages continued a discussion that I think (from
past experience) would have easily escalated into a nasty, hateful
exchange, or were just simply off-topic. I apologize to those of you
who were concerned that the list was broken, and I especially
apologize to Christian, who retyped all of his answers to the
Mindbender quiz after thinking the first e-mail was lost!!! I didn't
announce the moderation ahead of time because I didn't want anyone to
think that I was overreacting, but now I see that I wasn't.

This list will continue in moderation mode until it appears safe to
go back to normal. So there will be delays between when you post
something and when it appears. Also, if you try to post something
off-topic, please be aware that I probably won't approve it.

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Since I was a bit concerned about the direction the discussion was
> taking last night, I put the list into "moderation" mode [snip]
>
> I apologize to those of you
> who were concerned that the list was broken, and I especially
> apologize to Christian, who retyped all of his answers to the
> Mindbender quiz after thinking the first e-mail was lost

Marc, that's no problem!
(Okay, okay, it WAS a problem in the moment I had to retype the
entire mail out of my memory :-) Your reason is plausible and
therefore it's no problem at all. To be honest I am glad to join a
group with such an excellent moderator! And thanks for your
apologize. (Great guy this Marc :-)

CU C.