[discuss] List membership management

Nick Ashton-Hart nashton at internet-ecosystem.org
Tue May 6 13:18:31 UTC 2014


I disagree. We could all transition over to the forums, and would do, were this list to be closed at some defined date - or become announce-only. 

Which, at this point, would be an improvement IMHO.

On 6 May 2014, at 15:00, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:00:59AM -0400, joseph alhadeff wrote:
> 
>> The problem appears to really be that there is no list organizer
>> willing or able to make a clarifying and transparent set of rules.
> 
> That isn't exactly fair.  To their credit, the list organizers decided
> back in the deepest winter (where I was, anyway) that a mailing list
> wouldn't work, and tried to move the whole thing to a web forum.  I
> hate web forums, so I didn't participate there & more or less stopped
> paying attention.  Then I got a note from someone asking that I
> re-engage on list.  So I did.  I think the steering committee decided
> that moderating a mailing list was beyond their ability to commit (I
> don't blame them -- I wouldn't moderate this list either), so here we
> are.  We have to self-moderate and put up with knaves and fools.  I
> find that procmail or sieve helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> A
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
> 
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