[californiadisasters] Admin Read: San Bruno Incident

Achtung Gruppe!

I appreciate all your newsy and informative contributions here tonight while I was out on the town and thank you all.

However, at times tonight things got a bit too chatty and chippy which was unnecessary on-list or even at all.

It is to be expected that in the initial minutes and even hours of an incident like this that there will be confusion and even unintentional misinformation, ergo the "fog of war".

However, please be mindful this group has over 1,500 members and I daily keep our membership trimmed of the dead weight of members with bouncing Yahoo Groups accounts if they neglect to respond to my repeated reactivation requests. If I did not do this our membership would be closer to 2,000 but I'm not interested in looking like a bigger group than we actually are.

That means that most of our members are actually here and following the list activity to varying degrees.

We have members from a broad array of societal backgrounds from Joe Blow the Plumbers like me to first responders to politicians to media types to scientists to students and so on.

Please be mindful of this and considerate of other people and think in terms of what would benefit the most people while being the least disruptive; think in terms of an information cost-benefit ratio and where your comments will fall within that ratio.

Therefore, please only post hard facts based upon confirmed or even unconfirmed reports provided they come from reliable sources and articulate your information as clearly as possible to avoid confusion.

Unconfirmed reports of first responders who are down or missing are verboten as they are on all respectable groups like this one.

This topic does NOT need to go to the discussion group but please keep it tight gang.

Thank you all for your cooperation and contributions.

Sincerely,

Kim Patrick Noyes
List-owner


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