NEW MEMBERSHIP POLICY (11/06/09)

[AceLot]

I have noted that a number of new members joined our (message board)
community and used our site for subjects (and purposes) other than
those that are school- or alumni-related. The new members, from what I
can surmise from their UserNames and subjects of interest, are not
graduates of the school. I have deleted the "out-of-line" new members
and the "out-of-line" topics they have posted from our web site.

Consequent to the above incidents, we have to institute some degree of
control to what gets posted in our web site. The thinking is if a
member is legitimately a former student or alumni of the school, their
postings would be relevant and responsible. Therefore, if there is
some management of who becomes a member of the site, we will have the
relevant and responsible postings we want.

I have therefore made some changes to the accessibility to our web
site: (1) An aspiring member would now need to request to join (the
request is in the form of an email which goes to me); (2) The aspiring
member will be asked (a) the name (and year) of the high school he/she
graduated from; and (b) the name of "town" district where the "town's"
old church is located. The above question's would, at an elementary
level, screen out those who plainly do not know anything about our
school and "town".

Also, the postings would now be more closely monitored and the "out-of-
line" postings will be deleted; and the member who made those
postings, sorry to say, will be removed & banned from the site.
Ideally, a site without "doors and fences" would have been nice.
Reality forces us to have "doors and fences".

Thank you ... and good night.

Ace Lot

[norberto angeles]

thanks a lot and maybe there is no spam on my inbox anymore

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, AceLot <Lot88...@verizon.net> wrote:

[lot88...@verizon.net]

Hi Norberto,

 

Thanks for your note. Hopefully, with our new membership policy, we would be able to screen out the spammers.

 

Ace Lot