Sunday, February 10, 2013

Re: [IAC#RG] Request to Moderators to give Priority to New Topics

Dear Babubhai (and other list members)

Your solution / wishlist is impractical.

1) Our mailing list server on RISEUP is a FREE one. We don't even pay the token US$50 they expect as donation. We are very grateful to Riseup collective for putting up with us freeloaders, but at the end of the day they are not Google and somebody else is PAYING so that people like us can communicate. We cannot keep abusing their hospitality to circulate 200 emails everyday. Riseup is not Facebook, Google or other advt or IPO supported space. It is an international anarchist collective running on obsolete machines/servers coded by expert programmers.

2) The vast majority of our list members will not put up with the oceans of crap which is generated, and only a small fraction of which is allowed to be circulated.

3) At the end of the day all these emails achieve NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH .... ZERO in the war against corruption.

4) An email list is very different from "social media". We know how to run email lists. We cannot allow / propagate that emails from our list go to SPAM folders to be read over there as you have proposed. We do everything to see that our emails reach (and are read by) our members especially those with Gmail or Yahoo accounts (we have given up on aol, hotmail and rediffmail users) and don't end up in spam folders. You may like to know that 80% of your own RTI google group's emails end up in spam folders (of gmail users) as opposed to only 3.8% of this list.

5) If we have to make a choice between retaining a large number of members who want to receive fewer but relevant emails Versus a few members who want us to allow all kinds of unfocused emails (in the name of freedom of expression), we are very clear that we shall restrict / expel such few members to retain the large number. In fact my co-moderators are pressing that we REDUCE the number of emails allowed each day to a max.of 10

6) Lastly, some members have started their own little private CC mailing lists and circulate emails to each other (to continue their discussion after their emails are rejected by this list). Their subject line however continues to bear "[IAC#RG]" which misleads members that these emails are coming from this list. Everybody please be advised that if any member habitually (defined as "more than twice") persist in ignoring "Rejected due to too many CCs" warnings, they shall be unsubscribed from this list (and thus from IAC) without further notice.

Sarbajit

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Babubhai Vaghela <vaghelabd@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Sir / Madam,

While the on-going discussion on some already posted messages on some topics can go on and those interested in it may read / respond, priority be given to the new topics initiated by anyone. 

If the Members get fed up with so many topics & so many messages, they can better keep them in spam folder & read only the ones they feel like after glancing through the subject matter. The same can be deleted then. Alternately, they may opt out of the Group but putting too much restrictions on the no. of topics is certainly not advisable and not desirable also.  

To me, corruption is inseparable from the most crucial aspect of governance & the group should not restrict topics only on corruption. 

With warm regards,

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(Babubhai Vaghela)
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(Administrator - Google Group - Right to Information Act 2005)

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