Re: [HumJanenge] Dear Moderators, please don't force feed us

Dear Shri Roy

Your valued suggestions much appreciated.
We deeply regret the inconvenience caused to our esteemed members.

The immediate objective of the list owner is to achieve the targeted
transition to Googlegroups well in time of the deadline imposed by
Yahoogroups. Owing to poorly maintained membership lists of
"rti4empowerment" and "rti4ngo", we are only able to transfer about
50 members per day against the planned 100.

The secondary objective is to be an unmoderated group. We are
sanguine that in a few weeks time this shall be enabled.

In the interregnum, wholesale "Cross-Posting" of messages from elists
other "HumJanenge (Yahoo)" to our group will be treated as spam
and offending members will be warned / blocked.

The list moderators have also decided that "News Spam" is undesirable,
and shall be curtailed as policy . The posting rights of email ID
"vishalkudchadkar" is also modified / filtered to this purpose.

PMK

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, sroy 1947 <sroy1947@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Owners / Moderators
>
> I think that I can safely speak for the vast majority of members of
> HumJanenge when I say that we are fed up with the mountains of NEWS-SPAM (ie
> recycled newspaper articles) and other mails which are being force fed by
> both the HJ groups to us.
>
> As someone who possesses the entire archive of HJ emails since 2004, I can
> say without fear of contradiction that HJ has now reached its nadir and is
> scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to serious discussion on
> RTI. And which is a great pity. It is also very tragic when posts from BOTH
> HJ groups go straight into the SPAM folder of Yahoo.
>
> It is not to late to save the situation. Here are my suggestions.
>
> 1) Active moderation of the group.
> 2) People who post irresponsibly should be booted off mercilessly
> 3) Dont allow anyone (moderators included) to post more than 3 times daily.
> 4) Ensure that post from the group do not exceed 12 posts per day.
> 5) Ban cross-posting between groups.. Take the case of the thread
> on Arundhati Roy. It started off from [rti_india] then exploded on
> [HumJanenge] and whimpered out on [rti4empowerment].
> 6) Kick out cross posters.
> 7) Freeze posts from this group for 1 week.
> 8) Decide the policy on "News Spam".
>
> This should sort out 50% of the problem. Act now.
>
> Sarbajit