eBay idiocy/vcf idiocy et. al.

[Jay West]

Please terminate this thread as of midnight 1/19/2007. Any posts pouring gas 
on the flames of this post after that time will result in 2 week ban from 
the list.

It has been posted here publicly by someone (as well as privately, perhaps 
by someone else) that they don't see why I allowed Sellam's post to the list 
in the first place. Let me clear that up by stating that Sellam never 
technically unsubscribed from the list, instead he set the "no mail" flag on 
his account. This means that he would not receive any list traffic, but as 
far as the list software is concerned he was still a member. This setting is 
built into the list software and is typically used by people going on 
vacation, changing email accounts, etc. As a result, his post was 
immediately accepted and dispersed without any moderation required. If it 
HAD been flagged for moderation, I'm quite sure I would have emailed Sellam 
privately off-list first and asked him to tone it down a bit.

Jay