[ale] New Mailing List initiatives for ALE

[Jerald Sheets]

I mean, if this were a desired direction, a "web 2.0" style forums  
would do this much better I'd think, but the forum idea (IMO, correct  
me if I'm wrong) doesn't fit us very well.

--Jms


On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On 9/26/06, Jerald Sheets <jsheets at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> [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.
>
> We can have multiple moderators.
>
>> 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.
>
> Seems to me that would be even harder to keep up with, as well,
> difficult to maintain consistency.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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