You might want to take note of our decision ~18 months ago
to moderate bionet.photosynthesis. I started off opposed to
moderation, but relented because I couldn't provide an alternative
to other subscriber who were NOT prepared to accept the level of junk
postings.
IMO opinion, we did a good
job of drawing up a revised charter which made the moderation
policy clear - archived at:-
http://www.bio.net/hypermail/PHOTOSYNTHESIS/9511/0003.html
Basically, we said that the policy would be to reject obvious
spams and blatant violations of the "no ADS" principle. We also
said that moderation policy would be very liberal. I am not the
moderator, but as far as I know, his decisions have all been
accepted without argument.
BTW BIOSCI rules are that you must put the revised charter to a vote.
In a disciplined readership like this one, there shouldn't be a problem.
Jonathan B. Marder , Department of Agricultural Botany
E-mail: MARDER at agri.huji.ac.il | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Phone: (08 or +9728) 9481918 | /\/ Faculty of Agriculture
Fax: (08 or +9728) 9467763 |/ \ P.O.Box 12, Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL
http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/~marder
