Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:00:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: VALERIE VINSON <vvinson@cwis.unomaha.edu>
To: Martha Gimenez <gimenez@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Self-Moderation
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961008115036.17659A-100000@csf.Colorado.EDU>
Hi Martha and other PSNer's
Of those who decided to unsubsribe from this list was the question asked,
How many other lists they were on?  Sometimes we subsribe to more than one
list and the mail becomes overwhelming or we go a day or two without
reading our mail.  I personlly do not feel that we should have a limit to
the number of post but who am I?  Just one person who is on several lists
and can find the time to read all of my mail.

Valerie Vinson 

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Martha Gimenez wrote:

> 
> Dear PSNers,
> 
> It seems clear that, when calling for the need for self-moderation,
> we should have reminded everyone that they are free to select
> the unmoderated version of the list, PSN-CAFE.
> 
> We've often explained how to subscribe to PSN-CAFE but if anyone
> has missed the instructions, please send LISTPROC@csf.colorado.edu
>      unsub PSN
>      sub PSN-CAFE Yourfirstname Yourlastname 
> if you wish to receive *ALL* messages. 
> 
> All lists have unsubs, but several years of empirical evidence on PSN and
> other CSF lists have shown repeatedly that the level of unsubs is
> strongly related to the volume of traffic, which is exactly what
> hundreds of unsubscribers have told us in their responses.  We are
> taking the hundreds of responses from unsubs seriously.  
> 
> The moderators have conferred and have agreed that the limit
> of 7 of the last 100 messages should not be retroactive. 
> Therefore, as of this time, the software has been tricked into
> thinking that none of the last 100 messages were written by any
> subscriber.  If anyone sends LIMITS@csf.colorado.edu the two words
>        mylimit  psn
> they will be told, at this time, that they are 7 messages below 
> their limit.
> 
> In solidarity,
> 
> Martha E. Gimenez
> PSN Founding Editor
> 
> 
> 
>