Re: Strange JRA Support group request by ????

[Guest guest]

Georgina - You are doing a fantastic job. I really don't know where I would

be without this site. It truly had been a lifesaver. I would much rather

have you moderate than deal with all that spam crap!

Alia

Re: Strange JRA Support group request by ????

Hi Everyone,

Okay. I, too, received an identical email message. Maybe all of our list

members addresses were targeted or perhaps only those who have posted in

recent days? I'm not really sure.

I really disliked changing the format of our list, becoming a so-called

'moderated' group. It was something I really struggled with. I have very

strong feelings about censorship and the individual's right to Freedom

of Speech.

This group functioned very well for more than four years without the

need to resort to moderated status. As time went on, especially in the

past year, the numbers of spam and infected email messages increased

dramatically. The sole reason that I switched this group to a moderated

status was to try to filter out inappropriate, harmful, and completely

off-topic postings.

I'm not a controlling-type person. I don't have anything to gain by

denying someone's message from appearing in our forum. In fact, I've

never once intentionally denied a post that was not harmful or, at least

in my opinion, completely inappropriate for our list members. The fact

is, I've seen too many valuable email groups make the switch to pay

services so they could more easily avoid the type of disruptions that

are sometimes faced in unmoderated mailing lists. I wanted the JRA List

to remain a free service, so I took it upon myself to filter the posts.

Not moderate them.

There are occasional delays and I really do appreciate everyone's

patience. I live in a far-off time zone (six hours difference from New

York, for example) and I'm not able to be online as often as I'd like

to. When I do have a chance to get online, my main objective is to check

in here at the list: approve new members, filter out the spam, catch up

with everyone's news, read about how all the members and their families

are doing, and find out if there's any arthritis-related news that might

be of interest to us. I don't hardly get a chance to write much these

days, with so much going on lately (parenting two teens, Josh being

sick, being busy at work, just had to get a new car, finally caught the

feral kitten that was keeping me up every night crying, etc. etc. !!)

but whenever I can ~ I do.

Didn't mean to offend anyone, by not approving new members' posts fast

enough. And I'm not at all offended by someone beginning a new group for

those who have or know someone who has arthritis. We're all in this

together, right?

With Much Aloha,

Georgina

staciar101 wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> Pretty quiet the last few days except for all of Georgina's awesome

> posts, huh?

>

> I received the following email today -- from whom I don't have any

> idea. It is from " JRAsupporters-owner " . Is the jra-

> list by Georgina turning into something else by the above person??

> Or is this really junk mail? Did anyone else here get a similar

> email? It seems to almost be something automatically coming from

> .com. Does anyone know who " alliangel9293@... " is?

>

> (To read the Georgina , I don't get individual emails from

> the . I go to and sequentially read the posts

> on .)

>

> Everything below the dashed lines, below, is the email I got today.

>

> Stacia

>

>

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

> alliangel9293@... has invited you to join the JRAsupporters

> group!

> (This invitation will expire in 7 days.)

>

> A message from alliangel9293@...:

> You have been invieted to join the new group JRA supporters

> because of your involvement with JRA and other groups. JRA

> supporters lets your messages be posted immediately after you submit

> them instead of having to wait for them to be approved. This is a

> member run group instead of being controlled by moderators who

> determine if your message can be posted or not. Please join and help

> others in your same situation!

[Guest guest]

Georgina - you have done a great job here on the list. I am glad you

took the step to filter out the problem emails we were getting and I

agree that the list should stay free. Since I joined 4 years ago, I have

learned so much and " met " so many great people. Perhaps the poster was

refering to other jra lists at ? Here our posts come through right

away usually. I like the list as is, thanks for all you do. Michele

(17, diagnosed 4 years ago the 17th which I can't believe, pauci &

spondy)

Re: Strange JRA Support group request by ????

Hi Everyone,

Okay. I, too, received an identical email message. Maybe all of our list

members addresses were targeted or perhaps only those who have posted in

recent days? I'm not really sure.

I really disliked changing the format of our list, becoming a so-called

'moderated' group. It was something I really struggled with. I have very

strong feelings about censorship and the individual's right to Freedom

of Speech.

This group functioned very well for more than four years without the

need to resort to moderated status. As time went on, especially in the

past year, the numbers of spam and infected email messages increased

dramatically. The sole reason that I switched this group to a moderated

status was to try to filter out inappropriate, harmful, and completely

off-topic postings.

I'm not a controlling-type person. I don't have anything to gain by

denying someone's message from appearing in our forum. In fact, I've

never once intentionally denied a post that was not harmful or, at least

in my opinion, completely inappropriate for our list members. The fact

is, I've seen too many valuable email groups make the switch to pay

services so they could more easily avoid the type of disruptions that

are sometimes faced in unmoderated mailing lists. I wanted the JRA List

to remain a free service, so I took it upon myself to filter the posts.

Not moderate them.

There are occasional delays and I really do appreciate everyone's

patience. I live in a far-off time zone (six hours difference from New

York, for example) and I'm not able to be online as often as I'd like

to. When I do have a chance to get online, my main objective is to check

in here at the list: approve new members, filter out the spam, catch up

with everyone's news, read about how all the members and their families

are doing, and find out if there's any arthritis-related news that might

be of interest to us. I don't hardly get a chance to write much these

days, with so much going on lately (parenting two teens, Josh being

sick, being busy at work, just had to get a new car, finally caught the

feral kitten that was keeping me up every night crying, etc. etc. !!)

but whenever I can ~ I do.

Didn't mean to offend anyone, by not approving new members' posts fast

enough. And I'm not at all offended by someone beginning a new group for

those who have or know someone who has arthritis. We're all in this

together, right?

With Much Aloha,

Georgina

staciar101 wrote:

>

> Hi all,

>

> Pretty quiet the last few days except for all of Georgina's awesome

> posts, huh?

>

> I received the following email today -- from whom I don't have any

> idea. It is from " JRAsupporters-owner " . Is the jra-

> list by Georgina turning into something else by the above person??

> Or is this really junk mail? Did anyone else here get a similar

> email? It seems to almost be something automatically coming from

> .com. Does anyone know who " alliangel9293@... " is?

>

> (To read the Georgina , I don't get individual emails from

> the . I go to and sequentially read the posts

> on .)

>

> Everything below the dashed lines, below, is the email I got today.

>

> Stacia

>

>

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

> alliangel9293@... has invited you to join the JRAsupporters

> group!

> (This invitation will expire in 7 days.)

>

> A message from alliangel9293@...:

> You have been invieted to join the new group JRA supporters

> because of your involvement with JRA and other groups. JRA

> supporters lets your messages be posted immediately after you submit

> them instead of having to wait for them to be approved. This is a

> member run group instead of being controlled by moderators who

> determine if your message can be posted or not. Please join and help

> others in your same situation!

[Guest guest]

Georgina,

Thank you for keeping this a super place that is both clean

uncluttered for our eyes and our computers!!! I love that about

this list and you are the reason. Continual kudos for all you do

for us.

Stacia and Hunter 8 systemic, iritis