[NCUC E-team] Mailing lists

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I think this is a good default.

I think the issue of allowing people to comment directly to archived lists is as much a policy as a practical issue. It is the sort of thing that the Ec could make a recommendation on, e.g establishing guidelines that empower the coordinators to only pass on messages that are on topic for the list.

One other advantage is that so often an issue being discussed on a list includes another person for a short time.  The moderate option allows them to participate as if on the list for that subject (assuming they are CC'ed on messages people send).  Personally, I find it irritating to have people include me on a conversation on a list I am not on and have my responses blocked.  Also this allows people to have a way to bring an issue to the attention of a group for which they are reading the archive.  When I was chairing the NCSG-EC and I was endlessly reporting the NCSG charter slog, it was only one person off the list who sent replies to the charter issues.    I think it is good to have this in the archive.

I think having the coordinator, and maybe one other,  moderate is good.

avri

BTW, can you set me up to send from either acm.org or ella.com, but receive on only acm.org?  thanks.



On 20 Jan 2013, at 15:45, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:55:57PM -0500, Avri Doria (avri at ella.com) wrote:
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2013, at 12:29, William Drake wrote:
> 
>>> I've never been on a list that receives messages from the great
>>> beyond. Don't you think it odd for outsiders to be able to post to
>>> lists they cannot read, and for list members to receive
>>> interventions from outside the group, which may or may not be
>>> constructive? Don't know about anyone else but I would much prefer
>>> the normal configuration.
> 
>> I have managed several of these and think it works quite well as
>> long as someone moderates and only lets on topic through.
> 
>> i very much recommend that all leadership teams have this capability
>> turned on.
> 
> All lists are now (by default) so that outsider messages are held for
> moderation. If the number of such messages grows to non-trivial
> numbers, there should be a moderator from the groups themselves, like
> the coordinator.
> 
> Perhaps it could be left up to the coordinators to decide if that's
> what's wanted - the alternatives are discarding such messages or
> letting them through automatically.
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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