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

[Vany Martinez <vany_martinez@yahoo.com>]

Dear Dany and all:


Thank you for submit such a request.

There are free scripts out there that can be used for
make easier the life of a majordomo administrator.  In
my search I found the following website.

http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/scripts_majordomo.htm

However it is in Spanish, but I haven't found yet a
similar website in English.  For sure as I read French
(without having learn French) maybe the administrator
at AFNIC can more or less read this document in
Spanish.   If I have time I would translated into
English or at least to offer my help to the
administrator in order to explain more according to
such a website what is the purpose of every script
described there.

For restricting postings, I haven't found any scripts
yet.  


If programming or getting such scripts is outside
functions of AFNIC for DNSO, then I propose to ask the
cooperation of General Assembly members in order to
provide one or if know about any script to perform
such functions requested by Danny, then provided the
URL where to download it.  

For the last, if AFNIC doesn't want to use scripts
that are programmed out there for free, then majordomo
provides a command that makes semi automated the
function of handling bounces.  Information about the
use of such command is described in the manual page of
majordomo.  With the proper organization, such feature
must save time to the list administrator.

Best Regards
Vany




--- DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> 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.  
> 


=====
Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
http://www.sdnp.org.pa e-mail: vany@sdnp.org.pa

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