[ale] New Mailing List ... & Verified Voting in AJC

[Bob Toxen]

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