Early questions

[davewitley]

I have coded 40 posts now.  Most were quite quick rejects - if my 
period is typical I'm not surprised at the 70% rate.

However, I realised that I was falling into a pattern and I wanted 
to check.  It may need a list-elf or ex-elf to answer.  In effect, I 
have been treating the posts as if they were in the Pending Messages 
queue, rejecting those that would not have made it to the list if 
that system were in place, and categorising the others.

The criterion for pendings, when I was doing it, was 'does the post 
make a valid canon point?'  Is that sensible?  Dicey, Phyllis, Pip, 
Masha, Dan?

I'd be interested to know, too, if something of the sort underlies 
Kelley's reservations about the 'adds nothing new' category as there 
is not usually a reason to reject these for posting to the list.

David