Hello Julie!

Firstly, congratulations and most cordial thank you-s for a most excellent
website - but, with my apologies - I have apparently relied too much on
events being published on the list too.

If events are published on the list, and one is subscribed to receive
messages by e-mail, there is no way one can miss them, and that should make
publication foolproof. With website publication, on the other hand, things
become a bit more hit and miss, since gaining information is entirely
dependent on one's actually visiting the events list on the website - and I
must confess that there are a lot of very worthy websites that I don't visit
on a regular-enough basis, there simply being so many of them - and I fear
that quite a few other people too may recognize similar "sins by omission",
as I believe they are called...).

To solve this dilemma, may I suggest that ALL events are published BOTH on
the list AND on the website?

(Mike has put me right on the plain oversight/omission in this case re
publication on the list: many thanks Mike; easily done!)

[One of these days, when I get truly organised, I intend not only to publish all
our future events/services here as soon as I know about them, but also to
publicise events and services by other singing groups who share the same ideals
as us, and whose singers either currently sing or have sung with us in the past.
The basic criteria is the restoration of sacred music - be it Chant, Renaissance
Polyphony, or other suitable music - to its proper liturgical context.

We'll also go anywhere, and sing for anyone (within reason!) provided the above
criteria are met.

If I may be allowed to indulge in a little bit of list trivia, we have had
singers (& still have people on the list) from all the main Christian
Denominations in this country including clergy. Singers have also come from
other Christian backgrounds and we've had people who don't believe in
anything/anybody but like singing, and to my knowledge, at least one Buddhist.

We've also attracted the attention of a friend of mine who is a Methodist
minister. Quite what we'd sing for him if we ever got an invitation I really
don't know, but if it ever does happen, I promise you'll see it here first!]



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Another question: Is the Rudgate list moderated? (I suspect it may be since
I sent my original message 19/04/2003 23:46 but didn't receive it back from
the list until 21/04/2003 13:40.) If so, is this really necessary? Couldn't
this moderation be dispensed with on this list: I mean, after all, it's not
a huge, "public" list: aren't we all "among friends"?

I must confess to hating moderation of lists as a matter of principle, not
so much because of the moderation as such, but because of the delays it
usually entails, since not every Moderator is on-line all the time!

Yours

Nick B-A

(AKA as "Old Nick", can't imagine why!)

[Yes, this list is moderated, mainly because I've seen what can happen to other
unmoderated lists I've been on with a similar sized number of people, and I'm
determined it's not going to happen here! At the moment, I either know or have
corresponded with almost everybody on the list - but not all, and there's no
reason to suppose that Julie, Mark or myself will know future subscribers. Maybe
I'm excercising undue caution, but I'd rather be safe than sorry!

Another reason is to try to avoid what happened after the tremendously
successful Scunthorpe Mass, when what was a relatively quiet list suddenly
increased in activity by over 50% of the then total number of messages. I admit
to being guilty of fuelling this to a certain extent :-), by wanting to know
more about what happened at Brinkburn last year, but should the same level of
activity ever happen again, I'd like to think that I'm capable of condensing
multiple messages into one or two.

Mike (Founder-Member, List Owner & Occasional Moderator!)]