Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
I'm sure we would've been top had Kevin Jenkins still been posting. He was
quite the prolific emailer.
well I think the group should give itself a pat on the head for its
general conduct. According to Google groups, we have 200 members (though
I'm sure some of those are duplicates). Like most groups, there's a
hard-core of posters (though lurkers are welcome).
more to the point, I have been using email lists since about 1995, and
moderating lists of one sort or another since the late 90s. I think you
would be hard-pushed to find a list with a better culture. Messages are
friendly, helpful, to the point without being obsessive. Sam is a hero
but others do try their best too and sometimes we solve things Sam
doesn't comment on;) He does short-circuit a lot of trial and error with
swift definitive answers, and given that he makes his living from
supporting people, he's very generous spending so much time here.
I take a small amount of credit for knowing when to act (I have banned
one person, and have got pretty good at not letting spammers through,
which can be harder than you might think) but most of all, I'd like to
say it's a pleasure to 'run' this list because you all make it easy to
know when lines are crossed (by not crossing them very often, if ever).
A good email list is not easy to create and harder to maintain -- you
collectively do 99% of the work. I joined this list in disgust at LMUG
many years ago. I offered to moderate the list because I knew I could
make that particular contribution and am very happy to do my bit that way.
so thank you Sam, Jason (for creating such a good list) and all of you
for being such good company.
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