[ale] New Mailing List initiatives for ALE

[Greg Freemyer]

On 9/26/06, Jerald Sheets <jsheets at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> [ale]  (ale at ale.org)
> This is the original mailing list that defined [ale] membership. Discussions
> should be (at least tangentially) relevant to systems administration, or
> sysadmin issues in Atlanta. This list will be moderated for members of [ale]
> to post to and subscribe to. All posting attempts will be moderated for
> relevance to existing threads and content.
>

The biggest problem I see is the "moderated" aspect.

I've been on a few moderated lists and the inherent delays to get
something posted take most of the usability out of it for me.

It gets really annoying when the moderator disappears for a few days at a time.

I don't have any great solutions. :(   ie. In the absense of a
moderator it gets difficult to enforce the rules.

Maybe someone needs to invent a ostrizism server.  ie. if 10 or more
members of the list vote to blackball someone on the same day, then
that person loses posting priviledges for a week.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century