[ale] New Mailing List ... the thread that wouldn't die

[Jeff Lightner]

FYI.  
Last night I went to AUUG (Atlanta Unix Users' Group) and just for the
heck of it asked if anyone was on the ale list as they discuss Linux a
lot during the pre-session.  One person said he was but only grudgingly.
I then asked how many had heard of the ale list and several hands shot
up.  Finally I asked how many had unsubscribed due to OT posts and most
of the same hands stayed up.

>From that informal poll it does seem that many professional SysAdmins do
tend to stay away from the list even if they are doing Linux
administration and Jerald was expressing a valid concern when he brought
this subject up.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Keith Hopkins (ALE)
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:09 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] New Mailing List ... & Verified Voting in AJC

If there has to a moderated list, then how about single feed to two
list?  All mail goes to ale at ale.org.  You can subscribe to either
ale at ale.org, or to ale-moderated at ale.org.  Those subscribed to
ale at ale.org get to see all the goo sent to ale at ale.org.  Those
subscribed to ale-moderated at ale.org get filtered goo from ale at ale.org.
Best of both worlds, assuming someone likes/wants to be the
ale-moderated moderator.  ale-moderated at ale.org can be a alias for
ale at ale.org for incoming mail.

ale-announce would be handy, as would ale-jobs.

--
On my way to Hong Kong,
  Keith


Bob Toxen wrote:
> Assumptions:
> 
>   1. Moderation slows down data transmission.
>   2. Moderation is a lot of work for moderators and will burn out good
>      people.
>   3. People do not have time to view a web page.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
>   1. New ale-announce to announce ALE-related and -significant events
>      such as meetings, InstallFests, etc.  Moderated.  Initially
>      subscribe existing ale members and prepend [ale-announce] to
>      Subject line.
> 
>   2. Leave existing [ale] list unmoderated BUT:
>      1. New policy is that postings MUST be Linux-related and of
>         interest to general membership.
>      2. Admins (e.g. Jerald or others volunteers or selected) would
>         post "DEAD: Bill Gates' cat" to announce the decision that a
> 	particular thread, e.g., "Bill Gates' cat" is not of general
> 	interest.  Subsequent posters fo such a topic and posters of
> 	unrelated topics will get a warning and/or have their posting
> 	privileges denied for a week.
>      3. Admins can post "MOVED TO MISC: Verified voting in today's
>         AJC" to indicate a topic belongs in the [ale-misc] list.
> 	(Btw, it was front page news today and Gov.  Purdue is in favor
> 	of it.)  Admins can suspend posting privs.  of those posting
> 	too many off-topic postings to the main list.
>      4. Create new [ale-misc] list, I like misc rather than chat, for
>         for the name.
>      5. Keep [ale-unemployed] but, maybe, rename to more optimistic
>         [ale-jobs].
> 
> My $.02 but based on 30 years of mailing lists and taking care of some
> 1000+ member lists.
> 
> Bob Toxen
> 
> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
>    -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002
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