--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Antonik Wakfer" <paul@...> wrote:
>
> This note is to make group members aware that the messages posted on
> this group will henceforth be treated as follows:
>
> 1) If the message is clearly about something only within the purview
> of the moderators, then one or both of them will respond with text
> within the message before posting it. Others may then respond also.
>
> 2) For any other kind of post, the moderators will not respond for at
> least a week in order to promote and encourage some response from
> members of the group.

For those who are new to the group since February 2007 and older
members who may have forgotten, the above is a modification of the
Group Moderation Policy that was announced on January 26 2007 -
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/morelife/message/1406

The change was to item 2) of message 1406 that read:
"2) As long as we are satisfied that no immediate harm will be
forthcoming from the contents of a message, then we will leave it
intact (except for formatting, retitling and cleaning of extraneous
unsnipped old text, if necessary), and reply in a following message if
we wish to. Since all messages are moderated, we can still ensure that
our reply is next in line after the posted message, by simply holding
the others in the queue until own reply has been released and appeared
next in the archive. Although this still gives moderators an
"advantage" I do not see it as significant."

> I and Kitty have decided on this new approach for several reasons. The
> best way to learn something is to actually do it rather than just to
> read. It has always been our hope that the group will become a seminar
> where not only do others often do the necessary research to both bring
> forth new ideas (which a few members definitely do), but also where
> others respond to general questions or contribute well stated and
> researched comments, new viewpoints or simply additional information.
>
> --Paul
> **Kitty


So to state once again, our replies - if we think one is warranted, to
the messages of others that are not clearly directed to us personally,
will be held at least a week. While I can't remember the last time we
held anyone's response in the queue so that we could get our own reply
in first (the above quote should have read "could" rather than "can"),
we have now decided to purposely not make replies for an extended
time. During that time we hope that qualified posting members will
contribute as Paul stated in the Special Notice message.

**Kitty