-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As requested, I'm speaking here as one of the mailing list administrators -- and *NOT* moderator (please keep reading..) or not as a subscriber. For the most recent events from March-30-2014, since it seemed a flamewar was well on it's way, I stepped forward and placed the moderation setting on a particular subscriber. Next topic. The TCLUG-list has no content or subscriber moderators. Here's why: Anytime there has been an issue or problem, the list has moderated itself. Other subscribers speak up on what they want to see changed and make suggestions for such change. Others chime in and a general consensus is met. The concept of netiquette prevails. Do you, as list subscribers, want a person or people in charge of moderating content? If so, then the list needs to agree on what is acceptable and not acceptable to post in the list and a course of action to take when the unacceptable happens. And another thing to keep in mind, any policy creation will need to retroactively apply to all subscribers on the list now. How well is that going to be received? If this should proceed, then how are moderators chosen? I.e., nomination and voting or strictly volunteer or some other method? How many are allowed? And the "other duties" such as: (to name a few) * How are tasks tracked between moderators to make sure one does not undo the work of the others? * Is there a need for any kind of audit trail for moderators and their moderation actions? * Is there a chain of command between moderators? * How are disagreements and policy discussion between moderators handled? * What course of actions can a subscriber take dispute a moderation ruling? * How is such a dispute handled? So, as a list administrator, what do we do? As list administrators, we make sure the list is available, as in up & running. Email posts come in, they get distributed to subscribers and a copy is made available in the mailing list archives. We reject the 20 to 30 spam messages per day that try to make it to the list and in very rare cases manually unsubscribe or subscribe someone for numerous reasons per their request. We are either invisible, or in trouble. ;-) - -- Rick Tanner <rick at real-time.com> | Phone : (952) 943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952) 943-8500 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEVAwUBUzm6QVwn8veVxBRBAQKvcAf/VDjS6l8zj11oOSYY/hLzAtVotU7+jY5e KECnTgW2Np2zsw5a9A9gEbqkQjNbeW9+5TTJs97Ek1I4wHRQtDao25ivbb6ETYVW 7f4qIdmL7e6yRU7WahhwTB8vkpchrx2DulWSc6jR+YKWq6rH5a6rvhjwZaMsWxI2 WoiLXN594e3NtOg/4T9oSN9YIgl9fRZ0aEXd1k/ttALKrdW18fH+1Qqi+LvWPcKM CRTaGie7l+pJvMbpQ79yjIaz2bCjmdikhykB7It4Pe8c4+7MJWbOt59Mw0xRaDRa ps0I3eg4Ju0FyB4GD1Fw6qNC/kztJ2YQTsRX0xL+bd7lTv88lrDW1Q== =2AlU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----