For moderated mailing lists at Kenyon, such as employee-info@kenyon.edu, the moderator must exercise good judgment to ensure that the information sent to these lists is valuable to the recipients.
The moderator will screen submitted messages at least once each business day. The rules for use of this list are rooted in the purpose of the lists: messages should be about College business only. An e-mail suitable for the moderated mailing list must be judged (by the College administration in the person of the moderator) to merit sending to all recipients based on how well it can be described as College business. Inevitably cases will arise that will require judgment; that is one of the functions of the moderator. The following examples illustrate appropriate and inappropriate uses for the list:
Moderators have the option to either discard a candidate message--essentially, to throw it away--or to reject a candidate message. A rejected message is returned to the original sender. The moderator can optionally provide a reason for the rejection. In general, moderators will reject messages and provide brief reasons for rejection. However, the moderator may simply discard candidate messages: for example, messages with abusive language or repeat messages that have previously been rejected.

APPROPRIATE EXAMPLES OF COLLEGE BUSINESS

• announcement about the back-to-school welcoming dinner.
• announcement of a planned power outage in the Science Complex.
• announcement of E. O. Wilson's lecture.
• announcement of Common Hour courses or events.
• announcement of position vacancies.

INAPPROPRIATE EXAMPLES

• repeated announcements of E. O. Wilson's lecture.
• announcement that a dog has been found or lost.
• announcement that a ride to Washington is desired.
• announcement of personal political views.
• advertisements of products or services, free or for sale.