Our government agency has 40-50 Mailman lists which have sprung up over the years as various needs arose. We have a wonderful couple of guys handling the tech side of things and each list has an owner - usually not too technical - that handles the day to day memberships, postings, inquiries, etc.
We don't really have any central management of the process and face the common problems of no standards, lists that die out but no one is notified so they don't get removed, inconsistent wording or look and feel, new owners left pretty much to figure things out. Do any of you have good practices you could share about the organizational management of the lists? We don't want to go too big brother-ish, but perhaps things like: ** Form to request or deactivate a new list ** Examples of general policies every list owner should follow (not HOW to do it, but perhaps a checklist of organization requirements: each list must have a description, a footer, sample welcome message). I'm not looking to re-create the user manual. ** Do you have periodic meetings of your list owners (again, non-technical folks)? How often? We can create these things from scratch, of course. But I wanted to check with Mailman community to see if any of you have advice to share. I'm aware of the user manuals, FAQs, and this list. I did some searching for this topic, but couldn't quite hit a match. I'm interested in corresponding with some of you in similar circumstance. Thanks, Joy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joy Hall Bryant Program Manager - IRM Outreach Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Office of Communications & Strategic Partnerships P.O. Box 13564 Austin, TX 78711-3564 (512) 475-2346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
