Dear List Members
In response to Gordon Challand's email regarding screening list members
prior to joining acb-clin-chem-gen (see below)
Firstly I do not look after the ACB mailing list. The credit for this
excellent forum belongs to Rick Jones who administers its function and has
the power to bounce members if so needed so in that sense this is a
moderated list. There seems to be some confusion that the ACB mailing list
and the ACB website are linked, they are in fact two totally independent
systems running from completely different servers. This confusion has lead
to list members responding with their votes for poll of the month to this
mailing list and not to www.acb.org.uk where you will find poll of the month
on the main homepage. For example the poll on tick box requesting has only
elicited 12 votes on the website but a far greater number on this mailing
list.
I would be quite happy to make the poll of the month a question regarding
whether the mailing list should be closed and whether applications to join
should be vetted. The administration for running such a mailing list is of
course possible but would require an immense burden of work for the number
of users that are currently maintained(Rick can you comment on this)
Best Wishes
John O'Connor ACB Webmaster (and fellow user but not administrator of this
mailing list)
Dear Oren
There is a possibility to make the acb's mailbase a 'closed list' rather
than an 'open list': the former would imply that John O'Connor has to screen
all applications to join the list. Possibly John would like to ask members
this question as the October 'poll of the month'!
Gordon
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