On 11/05/2009, at 7:55 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On May 10, 2009, at 18:26, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Alan Burlison wrote: >>> >>> And I've already indicated there is no such 'policy', the mailing >>> list settings are the responsibility of the list owner, not the >>> OGB or the website community. The last time centralised list >>> management was mooted it was roundly rejected by the community. >>> The OSO communities need to decide either to manage their lists >>> properly or to ask for the task to be done centrally, but they >>> can't have it both ways. >> >> And I'm saying that there *ought* to be a policy. Right now the >> complete lack of any handling whatsoever results in an unacceptable >> situation IMO, where an active list, with folks willing to >> volunteer, can't get administration because one person has either >> left the community is disinterested in properly moderating the >> discussions. > > Feel free to construct and propose a policy for the OGB to consider. > I am not personally interested in doing that work since I think the > right approach in the current list infrastructure is to leave each > list manager to make their own decisions on how to use MailMan. Once > we have a list manager which uses OpenSolaris logins I might change > that view. > > And I'm less a Cavalier than a Roundhead.
I agree with Garrett. If someone is willing to step up, volunteer their time, and moderate a list so that auto-reject can be turned off, then I think we should be willing to accommodate that from an infrastructure point of view. Quite how that works if there's any politics involved, I don't know. Perhaps Alan might be able to generate some stats on who the poor list administrators are in terms of when they last logged in? Glynn
