Moderating & Redirecting Jump to: Moderators Moderated?  -   Moderator's Comments  including: How to help your moderators help you. What gets posted and what not. Redirectors Volunteering Return to: Programs Moderators The COPD & COPD-SUPPORT mail lists are moderated which means someone looks at each message before it appears on the list. This also means messages sent to the list are slightly delayed - will not appear on the list until approved by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderators are fellow subscribers who volunteer their time to review messages in hopes of reducing administrative posts while assuring: that management sees them, and to rid the list of: spam, bad URL's, and messages that do not fit within the guidelines. Moderators can not alter, censor, edit, or correct a message in any manner. It is either approved for posting it its entirety or rejected in its entirety. Posts that contain religious, political, activist and other such off-topic items are rejected. When COPD and off topic items are mixed, it presents situations which only management can handle plus it prompts complaints and disrupts the list. No one is singled out to be a victim of moderating. Our COPD mail lists are not open bulletin boards for indiscriminate posting but private mail lists with established guidelines. (See Policies.)   Return to top Redirectors Redirecting the messages from one list to the other is what ties the mail lists together and gives the group a family feeling. Redirectors are fellow subscribers who volunteer their time to review messages posted to an assigned mail list and redirect the ones they believe would be of interest to the other mail lists. Only on-topic messages are redirected. Redirectors may edit posts they redirect but this editing is no different than what the author is supposed to be doing to the message they are replying to - cut out the non-pertinent info so their message is concise. The editing is not to alter the content but to make it more readable - similar to the disclaimers in the letters to the editors for magazines and newspapers.   Click Here to return to descriptions (and subscribing). Return to top Volunteering To volunteer to be a moderator or redirector, fill out the form below: Please volunteer only after you have been a subscriber with us for at least 60 days. Moderators and redirectors need to be seasoned subscribers. You may volunteer for either one or both jobs; however redirecting requires you to have an Internet provider that allows use of Eudora Mail Software. First Name Last Name E-Mail Address   Email (Re-enter Address)   Are these addresses identical? If not perfect, your application will fail!   Internet Provider Role? Moderator    Redirector    Either/Both                 Return to top Copyright © 1999-2011  COPD-Support, Inc  All Rights Reserved Contact:  Management       .