How Newsgroups Work -- Especially SGM

All quite true and on the mark.

Renia wins plaudits...

Diana appears to be absolutely porcine ignorant as to how newsgroups
in general work -- and the particulars of SGM -- yet she pontificates,
prattles and perambulates on the periphery of prissy perorations.
--
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor

"Renia" <renia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote:

This list habitually tolerates off topic threads, not to mention
long bouts of
mud-slinging, so I don't know where the boundaries are. It is the
prerogative
of the list admin, not the subscribers, to declare a thread OT and
call a halt
to it. I will stop any time the list admin asks me to. In the
meantime, I will
respond to messages sent to me. If you want the thread to end,
stop posting to
it. If you want me to shut up, stop posting to me.


I do not subscribe to gen-medieval.

Its subscribers' messages are gatewayed and relayed to the newsgroup
I do subscribe to, which is: soc.genealogy.medieval

A newsgroup is not moderated and there are many different ways of
posting to a newsgroup.

Firstly, through the newsgroup itself.
Secondly, by subscribing directly to gen-med.
Thirdly, by posting on-line, through Google groups.

Of these three methods, only gen-med itself can be moderated, if the
listowners choose to do so. Otherwise, because of the triple
gateway, moderation is a waste of time, so it is up to individual
posters whether they get involved in OT threads, and to what extent.
Because of the triple gateway, only gen-med itself has a list admin.

I, personally, do not personally respond to your messages. I do not
click on your email address to ensure you read what I have written.
I respond to posts only in soc.genealogy.medieval. If you are seeing
what I have written, then it is because of the gateway.

I'm surprised, that as a listowner yourself, you seem to have little
idea of how usenet actually works.


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