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To All Greetings:

We all need to make a slight change to the manner we post here.  As mentioned
before, the process of moderating an Internet newsgroup involves having all
 posts
regardless of who they are really addressed to, sent to my personal e-Mail box
 here
at The User Friendly BBS.  This means that despite the fact that (in the
 address) you
may have addressed the post to "Bob Jones", it was changed at American.edu and
sent addressed to me instead.  I can fix this if you will help me.

From today forward, whenever you are posting a new message or replying to
someone elses, before begining the "meat" of your post.  Go to the top line and
 write:
"To: Bob Jones".  If you want to write: "From: Jim Edwards" you can, but it's
 not
necessary.  As I said, everything has been coming addressed to me personally.
 If I
can tell who it should actually go to, I can change the header and actually
 place the
persons name there that it should go to.  I don't mind doing this, I read the
 post anyway,
making this change is simple, but i have not been able to do it in most cases
 since
it is not conclusive who you wanted it to go to.  In the "To:" area you can
 either put their
real name or their internet address.  It really will not matter at all which.

So far I can usually tell if it should go to Ed Bloom or Norm Lederman and I
 will alter
the header to remove my name and replace it with theirs.    And this has not
 always
been so obvious.

I know this seems like a pain, but it's easier than sending private e-mail on
 some BBS
networks where you practically have to type an entire header in the first two
 lines of a
post.  The other alternative is to "not moderate" the newsgroup at all.  I am
 willing to do
this if the consensus here prefers it.  In this case, mail will speed up a bit,
 no header or
address changes will be needed, but the dozen or so inflammatory anti-masonic
attacks we get every day or so will be posted in the network rather than
 filtered out by
me as I will not get them in my box before going to the net.  I am willing to
 take the
anti-Masonic barbs if all of you are.  It's a choice and I am putting it out for
 a vote.

What do you all think?  To recap, the choices are:

1.)     Place a one line "To: whomever" statement in the begining of each post.

          or

2.)     Make this an unmoderated network, well, really a half moderarted network
          I can probably catch half of the anti-masonic drivel before it goes
 out over
          the net depending on when I logon.


Let's here from the masses in true democratic fashion.

Ron Boutwell
Indianapolis, Indiana


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