[AC-Admins] Mailing list Administration issues

[Scott Garron]

Inaki Tekalal wrote:
> Check it out. I'm top-posting AND trimming quoting. =P

      You didn't trim the signature line.  :[[[

> I honestly say we put it to a vote as far as mail filtering goes. Simba
> really.. really wants to do mail filtering and, for the sake of civilty
> we'll say he's put forth a proposal and offer to do it. What needs to happen
> now to avoid the appearance of a dictatorship, is the rest of the admins
> should vote on whether they feel this filtering is useful to us or not.

      We'd be voting for the wrong thing.  I don't "really.. really want 
to do mail filtering".  Honestly, I'd rather _not_ do filtering.  It 
just seemed like the only way for mail on this list to adhere to proper, 
standard text communication style.  Mail on this list must be properly 
formatted how ever that is to be done.  The only reason I suggested that 
I intercept posts and reformat them is because there were still people 
who were unwilling to do it the right way, and that was the only way I 
could come up with to get it done.  I'm open to other suggestions of 
ways to get it done.  I mean...  I suppose that I could spend the time 
to learn Python, edit the Mailman source, and come up with some kind of 
AI to do the reformatting.  Trying to automate it will most likely end 
up really butchering some posts, though, which is why I thought that I 
should do it manually for those who refuse to do it themselves.

> I personally vote no, as I have to agree that one person in control of
> communication between admins (even with the best of intentions) can and
> usually does lead to bad things.

      :[

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Scott 'Simba' Garron