On May 14, 2014 7:33:57 PM EDT, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: => On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Craig Cook <[email protected]> => wrote: => => > i.e. I would suggest the same for LOPSA. Make the ability to post => > questions to the LOPSA mailing lists a members-only benefit. Make => quick => > access to the LOPSA talent pool a scarce resource.
And maybe watch that pool dry up, leaving a few gasping fish flopping in the mud while the rest are swimming in google hangouts or stackexchange or some other stream. I believe that the people who give generously of their knowledge & expertise on the mailing list do so largely because they want to help others, improve the profession, pay back their mentors, and maybe show off a bit--not primarly to have their contribution boost LOPSA. They've done these things before there was LOSPSA, they do the same thing in other forums (company mailing list, local Linux user's group, etc). This community exists with littlle support from LOPSA (hosting a mailing list...really, who can't do that) and less leadership from LOPSA. Make the mailing list more difficult for new contributors, and they'll go elsewhere, and gradually current members will too. I'm a USENIX/SAGE member--largely for nostalgia (my first boss in IT founded ;login), but the annual publication & ;login are tangible benefits, keeping me connected & educated about this profession in ways that LOPSA never has. I'm a LOPSA member, mainly as a conference benefit (or is it a 'tax'?). If the mailing list became members-only, it would have a similar appeal to me as the infamous Members-Only jacket. => => => This may of course be harder to do than to propose. I note that SAGE => already has that policy, yet last I checked I was still on their list Yeah, SAGE never enforced that w. the mailing list. However, access to pdfs of conference papers, publications, etc, is much better controlled. => (hard => to know for certain without actively probing it, given its lack of => volume...). Mark _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
