[ale] This mailing list

[Chris Farris]

I've been keeping an eye on the goings on regarding changing the mailing 
list. Its interesting. I agree on the need for a better to signal to 
noise ratio. I also agree that moderation is tricky if moderators don't 
stay on top of things. I lean towards self moderation with warnings and 
"time-outs" for people that violate the agreed upon rules. "time-outs" 
would be moderating posts from that specific user for some period of time.

I've also gotten several offers, requests, and possibly a demand that I 
turn over maintenance of ale.org to others. I have no problem turning 
over ale.org. I do have a problem turning ale.org over to a specific 
faction in this debate, and I do have a problem turning ale.org if it 
will not be maintained.

ALE is not the only mailing list I run on my server and I _do_ have an 
interest in keeping all my lists operating smoothly. The root cause of 
the issues a few months back have been identified and resolved. I 
haven't seen or heard of any issues since then and I consider that 
service degradation and outage to be over.

There are quite a few people on this list, many who have been around 
since the beginning, who have contributed to the Linux Community in 
Atlanta, who moderate the three meetings, that I consider authoritative 
regarding the future of ALE. Those are the people who I will listen to 
if they tell me "give up the list".

I have not made any decision regarding new mailing lists, moderation 
policies or the like. My hope is that a consensus will be reached. As 
yet there has not been one (other than possibly reviving ale-announce).

Finally and as I've said before, the website is a wordpress blog. I 
populated it with some basic content, but my hope was for one or more 
people to finish that job (notice how the only two distros linked are 
the ones I use?) and I really wanted people to contribute original 
content and such to the front page. All I need are volunteers.

Chris

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