[TriLUG] trilug-ontopic@ proposal Re: Why don't people come to TriLUG meetings

[Jim Ray]

I would hate to be a moderator.  I get hundreds of emails per day and have
email in my inbox dating back to February including a couple from Vint Cerf,
the founder of the Internet.  There is no way I could take on a task of
filtering TriLUG email in the role of a moderator and suspect others might
feel the same way.

I enjoy the banter and opportunity to help others or to have others help me.
When the flames heat up, I'm perfectly capable of hitting the delete key and
expect others are as well.

I see no need to change.

As for coming to the meetings, well, I'd rather be home with my family.
Doing something with Linux and open source applications is more meaningful
to me than hearing someone talk about it.

Regards,
 
Jim
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew
> C. Oliver
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] trilug-ontopic@ proposal Re: Why don't people come to
TriLUG
> meetings
> 
> Matt Pusateri wrote:
> > Scott Lambdin wrote:
> >> If I am in need of assistance and I want to ask all my trilug comfrere
about
> >> something, do I have to choose the nice people or the wild people?
> >>
> > This is why I'm against fragmenting into 2 lists :)
> 
> Unfortunately, I think it has come to this.  We have some folks who are
> like "I dun wanna grow up" and others who are "Oh my eyes my eyes" and
> some folks are "humm, I can't refer my mom to that list because she
> won't have the patience to distill all the off topic posts and will just
> freak at certain other posts."  Ultimately "against" in such a case
> should be "will not subscribe" and not "you can't have it because I
> don't like it" IMO.
> 
> I favor keeping trilug@ a jungle (albeit still regulate "ridiculously
> out there" potential liability posts) and have a trilug-ontopic.
> 
> 1. The only vote will be with your feet but we should have a set of
> moderators who volunteer and are then selected by the list members (say
> 3 of them).
> 2. A set of rules for ontopic/out-of-bounds be selected
> 3. Some "objectives" or "quantifiable results" for success selected (to
> avoid a dead and potentially spam gathering list) [like we must have 3
> moderators at all time or it shuts, and at least say 20 subscribers]
> 
> Those who want a "kinder gentler" LUG will subscribe.  Those who do
> not...will not.
> 
> -Andy
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