[Moderator] Thanks for all the fish

[Adam Bridge]

I'd like to thank Scott for his very gentle and appropriate moderation
of the list. His work was valuable, subtle, and served all of us very
well.

Also thanks to Ken Case and Omnigroup for making the resource
available. I've been a member, off on on, since Rhapsody and the
"Preview of Rhapsody"  when the discussion was hot and heavy about
things like floating menus instead of the menu bar.

Moderation is necessary for focus and to keep discussions from being
too personal. It takes work, an ability (admired) to abstract
ones-self from the discussion at hand and to follow the flow of
discourse.

Thanks again,

Adam

On 1/25/07, Ken Case <kc at omnigroup.com> wrote:
> Yesterday evening, Scott Stevenson wrote:
>
> > I've decided I'm ready to pass the moderation baton to someone
> > else. I emailed Ken, so we'll see what he figures out. There are no
> > regrets, I just want to invest my energy in other things.
>
> Scott,
>
> I just wanted to publicly thank you for the effort you've invested in
> keeping the list focused.  For those who don't know, Scott originally
> volunteered to lend me a hand in his spare time after wading through
> 50 messages on bread and cheese trying to find something related to
> Mac OS X!
>
> Here's the message where I accepted his offer:
>
> On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:07 AM, Ken Case wrote:
>
> > The Mac OS X talk mailing list is a place to talk about Mac OS X.
> > If a message isn't specifically about Mac OS X, it belongs in
> > another forum.  (The topic is Mac OS X itself:  not Apple or
> > Microsoft; not Motorola or IBM or AMD or Intel; not a whole lot of
> > other related industry topics, including iPods, much less non-
> > industry topics--unless the messages themselves somehow
> > specifically relate back to Mac OS X.)
> >
> > As veterans of this list are undoubtedly aware, my occasional
> > reminders to stay on topic aren't nearly frequent enough to keep
> > the list on topic--so I'm now asking Scott Stevenson to help me
> > with this task.  (Don't be surprised when he starts responding to
> > future off-topic messages!)
> >
> > Thank you, and please feel free to contact me if you have any
> > feedback on this list's moderation policies.
> >
> >                               Your host,
> >                               Ken
> >
> > P.S. -- For those who do feel the urge to occasionally stray from
> > the topic of Mac OS X, the "osx-nutters" list was created earlier
> > this year specifically for that purpose.
>
> Thanks again, Scott:  I hope you don't mind if I consider you a
> moderator emeritus in the future?
>
> I haven't yet decided whether it makes sense to look for another
> outside moderator or to see if someone at Omni has time to take this
> on, but if anyone would like to nominate someone else as a potential
> moderator please let me know.
>
>                                 Your host,
>                                 Ken
>
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