RE: [nc-intake] Request from the GA Chair

["Chicoine, Caroline G." <CCHICOINE@thompsoncoburn.com>]

Philip, can you put this on the agenda for the August call.  Can we also ask
the Secretariat to forward its initial comments on this request in advance
of the meeting so we know what the technical alternatives really are the
estimated costs of same?

-----Original Message-----
From: DannyYounger@cs.com [mailto:DannyYounger@cs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:48 PM
To: nc-intake@dnso.org
Subject: [nc-intake] Request from the GA Chair


The General Assembly would appreciate it if the Secretariat could
investigate 
the possibility of re-configuring the listserve so that messages in excess
of 
the daily posting limit are automatically bounced back to the sender.   As
we 
are given to understand that the Majordomo software does not currently allow

for this provision, it has been suggested that the Secretariat's technical 
staff could either develop or obtain the necessary coding to provide for
such 
a possibility.  As this may involve some expense, this request is being 
forwarded to the Council for its consideration.  

We would prefer not to have to sanction our members for abusing posting 
privileges (and such abuse is rampant at present);  sanctions only serve to 
paralyze our list and thwart efforts to work in a meaningful fashion.   The 
Assembly has decided, quite some time ago, that five posts per day per list 
per person is ample, and we do not seek to burden our list monitors with
this 
particular chore on top of their already onerous duties.  An automated 
technical solution would be preferable to the alternative.

We would also like to have the ability to regularly poll our membership, and

to have our members introduce their own questions to a polling booth.  
Software for such polling is relatively inexpensive (ranging from freeware
to 
a few hundred dollars).  Perhaps the Secretariat could investigate the 
available options, their costs and features, and report back to both the 
Council and the GA.