Re: [ga-rules] Bounced Messages & Other List Administration

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

I had suggested to someone a while back that with all the
other stuff going on, reposting being done not only by the
Chair or Alternate Chair and various others who see a
thing that  they think others would like to see is a bit of
a waste and duplication of effort. I often see stuff several
times. That "mechanical" function is not a good way to
spend the time of the C or Alt-C in any event. So it was
my suggestion that a list have an official "reporter" or
"journalist" or whatever; only that person would re-post,
and those of us who think we found a goodie (that by
chance had already been reposted and the person so
finding had not noticed it) would send it to that "reporter,"
and then the reporter could screen all of it and just repost
each one only once.  (Or something like that; it's too early
for me today already!) But it would get that journalist type
involved in a working job, so to speak.  (Obviously, daily
post limits should not apply to a journalist doing that job;
that person's own observations, as parsed out below, would
of course be subject.)

Bill Lovell

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 00:56 31.05.2001 +1000, Alternate Chair wrote:
> >There are therefore three types of postings I might make (1) my own views on
> >a subject of interest (2) reposts and corrections (3) GA announcements.
> >Trying to perform these tasks could easily lead me to exceed my personal
> >daily posting limit.  This would be a valid but unworthy cause for concern.
> >
> >Of course, I could easily just ignore mis-postings, filter bounced messages
> >and not re-post ICANN Announcements or other relevant emails.  I see that as
> >bowing to form rather than substance.  A better solution is to refer
> >complaints of excess postings to the List Monitors who can make an impartial
> >assessment.  Pity that this just adds to their already large burden.
>
> Patrick,
> 1) There are ways of reposting a message (usually called "Redirect" or
> "resend") where the message appears to come from the original sender, not
> from you. You need the majordomo "approval password" to do this, of course.
>
> 2) Unless the message is urgent and important, I think it is better to
> advise the sender that it was bounced than to forward it. That way, people
> who want to be heard learn.
>
> 3) GA announcements should not be reposted, IMHO. Those who are on the
> announce list get them, those who aren't may have a reason not to be.
> If an announcement is of special importance to the GA, you should send a
> message saying WHY it is important and an URL to the announcement archive
> entry.
>
> In short - I think you could reduce your own workload and the list traffic
> by doing less, and there would be no harm to the GA in doing so.
>
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