WHY ARE POSTS EDITED, RETURNED FOR REVISION, OR OUTRIGHT REJECTED?
Oh, lots of technical or netiquette reasons! And a few serious ones. The value of a moderated digest is that the information is selected. If little was ever rejected, there would be no need for a moderator. So you should not let a returned post hurt your feelings. You should consider why it happened and understand how to avoid it. You should not criticize the moderators, or start private debates with them, because of these policies or an application of them. Here are some of the reasons: • a. Your post is “off-topic”, by far the most common reason we omit posts. After some years, we’ve accumulated an unpublished list of topics that wander into outer space, lead to pointless controversy, or just have little or nothing to do with the purposes of the digest. In the interest of tone, quality, and peace, the moderators reserve the right to subjectively omit posts. This *does* *not* *mean* we don’t like your ideas, that your post wasn’t well written, or that we think you are stupid. Many top
