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Rank: Moderator
Joined: 10/21/2007
Posts: 95
Points: -141
Location: Chula Vista, CA
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So, here is what I'm experiencing lately:
1. Posts to the administrator are bouncing. What's going on with this?
2. I can't figure out what's happening with the moved discussion list. I send copies of reviews to that list. They either bounce, or just disappear. I haven't received a single post from the new list.
Things need to be fixed, no?
Thanks!
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Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/12/2007
Posts: 172
Points: -349
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AML reviews should be posted here on the AML Discussion Board and no longer on the AML list. That's why reviews have not gone through.
As for the posts to the administrator bouncing, how have you tried to send them?
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Rank: Visitor
Joined: 10/26/2007
Posts: 13
Points: 39
Location: New York
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Association for Mormon Letters wrote:AML reviews should be posted here on the AML Discussion Board and no longer on the AML list. That's why reviews have not gone through.
As for the posts to the administrator bouncing, how have you tried to send them? Umm... why? I thought, after the firestorm when the switch was made, that the decision was to continue both. And given that the overall number of posts here isn't anywhere near the traffic on the list, why wouldn't you continue the list -- at least until everyone has gotten used to the board and switched to posting there?
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Rank: AML Member
Joined: 10/26/2007
Posts: 54
Points: 171
Location: Denton, TX
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Thanks for your work, AML Administrator.
But why do you not use your name? We are all supposed to sign our posts on this list. It is spooky to have this nameless Administrator laying down the law.
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Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/12/2007
Posts: 172
Points: -349
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This AML administrator is also the AML webmaster, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury.
And, yes, it is spooky, but even though she is speaking of herself right now in third person, it's because as "Association for Mormon Letters," she is not speaking FOR herself, but attempting to speak for AML.
Does anyone remember when Jonathan Langford (and, I think, Benson Parkinson, if I remember correctly) would occasionally have to make a special distinction between posts made as the AML list moderator, and posts made as Jonathan Langford, the ordinary person?
This is Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury's attempt to make that distinction, and nothing she posts as "Association for Mormon Letters" is intended to be construed as being from Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, the ordinary person, but instead to be construed as representative of AML and AML's board, to the best of her ability.
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Rank: Administration
Joined: 9/12/2007
Posts: 172
Points: -349
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Kent Larsen wrote:Association for Mormon Letters wrote:AML reviews should be posted here on the AML Discussion Board and no longer on the AML list. That's why reviews have not gone through.
As for the posts to the administrator bouncing, how have you tried to send them? Umm... why? I thought, after the firestorm when the switch was made, that the decision was to continue both. And given that the overall number of posts here isn't anywhere near the traffic on the list, why wouldn't you continue the list -- at least until everyone has gotten used to the board and switched to posting there? The AML Discussion Board is for discussion of topics of Mormon literature and film, for posting reviews of Mormon literature and film, and for posting announcements relevant to Mormon literature and film. The aml-list created "after the firestorm" was to give more time to those who wanted to discuss the changes approved and set into motion by the AML board.
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Rank: AML Member
Joined: 11/12/2007
Posts: 11
Points: 33
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I believe that it would still be best for the posts to be signed, as Ben and I used to do--even if you have to include the words "Speaking as administrator" (as we did).
Unsigned posts are a violation of the stated guidelines. Unsigned posts by the moderator do, I feel, contribute both to a sense of corporate namelessness and to the kinds of difficulties that were evidenced in the communication breakdown regarding AML-List.
While Kathleen's response in this thread is a positive thing, I doubt that this particular thread (and her particular post) will be read by all participants on the board. Even for visitors, I think that it sets a poor precedent to have unsigned posts appearing anywhere.
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