[ale] New Mailing List initiatives for ALE

[James Taylor]

Forums don't work for me at all.
The beauty of listservs is that I have content I've decided to monitor available when and if I want to look at it.
I can easily tell if there is anything new, I can see from subject lines (usually) if I want to read a particular item, and when I'm done with it I can make it go away.

A forum is just one more place to have to remember to go look.

-jt
 


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com







>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at  9:05 AM, in message
<30A6EF06-B1AC-4C65-A6A6-AACDA520BA90 at yahoo.com>, Jerald Sheets
<jsheets at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 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
>>
>> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>>   -  Benjamin Franklin
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