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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:23:08 +0100 (BST) David Lee <t.d.lee@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
Whilst guiding a potential list-owner through the approval/moderation procedure, I spotted an inconsistency. A typical "http://.../admindb/..." page ("Administrative requests for mailing list: ...") has a four way radio button, with one being labelled "Accept". But its "More detailed instructions" link to "Detailed instructions for the administrative database" then has this button described under the label "Approve".
This mixture of terminology seems to occur in other places also. You might want to consider rationalising these to the same thing for the sake of moderators who might be (say) secretarial staff.
I agree, but which is the best term to use? Reading the dictionary entries for "approve" and "accept", I think I like the former:
ap_prove
- To consider right or good; think or speak favorably of.
- To consent to officially or formally; confirm or sanction: The Senate approved the treaty.
- Obsolete. To prove or attest.
ac_cept
- To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval: accepted a glass of water; accepted their contract.
- To admit to a group, organization, or place: accepted me as a new member of the club.
- To regard as proper, usual, or right: Such customs are widely accepted.
- To regard as true; believe in: Scientists have accepted the new theory.
- To understand as having a specific meaning.
- To endure resignedly or patiently: accept one's fate.
- To answer affirmatively: accept an invitation.
- To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).
- To be able to hold (something applied or inserted): This wood will not accept oil paints.
- To receive officially: accept the committee's report.
- To consent to pay, as by a signed agreement.
- Medicine. To receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without immunological rejection.
Seems to me that definition #2 of "approve" is the closest to what a list administrator does.
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