From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Oct 30 11:11:00 2005
From: "janl-,-speakeasy.net" <owner-chemistry-.-server.ccl.net>
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Subject: CCL: Comments from CCL unmoderator
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Sent to CCL by: janl]^[speakeasy.net
Dear CCL Members,

With the wave of unsubscriptions and personal e-mail that I received
lately, I would like to clarify a few things:

1) I do not moderate the list. Why?
   a) I do not want to be sued.
   b) I do not want to make decisions what is right and wrong
      for the CCL, even if I consider myself qualified.
   c) Moderating CCL would be a substantial effort on my
      part. Currently the income that CCL brings barely covers
      cost of its operation (hardware, network connectivity, backup
      media, electricity, etc.). It definitely does not cover my
      time in any significant and noticeable way.

2) From any rational point of view, the CCL is a hobby project for me.
   As long as I have time, I will try to improve it and make it better,
   but obviously, hopefully sooner than later, I will need to put my
   time and effort into tasks for which I am paid. I am in the process
   of polishing my CV and will soon look for gainful employment.

3) CCL is not based on subscriptions. ANYONE (subscribed or not)
   can post to the list. While there are some checks (you do not
   see much spam [depending on the definition] on the list), you
   do not have to be a recipient of CCL messages to be able to post
   to CCL. I elaborated on this before in my previous emails. Time
   allowing, I will put these explanations on the Web.

4) I will hopefully soon introduce tools that will allow you to tailor/filter
   the messages received from CCL. When I am ready, I will tell
   you how. The tool will be initially based on regular expressions that you
   enter to match the messages. Later on, I may introduce
   "profiles" (e.g., I want messages on "drug design", "ab initio",
   "molecular dynamics"), provided that I will find time to work on these
   issues. Again, please understand that I am not retired and I have
   kids school age. You will soon be able to score messages (adding
   positive and negative partial scores) for regular expression matches
   on message body and the From: line to accept or discard messages that
   are sent to you based on the threshold.


With regret, I will not contribute my 2c worth on open/not-open source
and free software and the Unix/Windows debate. I would like to ASK YOU ALL
to post USEFUL stuff to CCL, i.e., the stuff that we can use in our
research and teaching. E.g., commenting on the recent discussion,
I would really be happy to hear more about paging approaches in
whatever-Unix vs. Windoz that the fact that, for example, the
Gates is filthy rich with only few pre-legal classes at Harvard.

Jan

Your unmoderator.

jkl##ccl.net