At 15:35 28/03/03 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Simon Blake wrote:
I'm picking that Don could blast through the membership and pick 50-100 email addresses that he knows are with operators/ISP's/whatever. Then when a prospect applies, it gets notified to the list, and unless anybody squawks on the list, they get put on.
I'm a great believer in leaving things alone. Currently we have a large number of people on the list who aren't exactly "network operators" . The vast majority of these people are no problem and don't even post. Some of them will post sometimes when something in their area comes up.
I agree with this. There are a lot of people that "lurk" on this list, both "network operators" and not, who most people aren't even aware of since they hardly ever post. However they often have something useful to say in the right situation. If the subscriber list was going to be built back up from scratch based on peer agreement about who is "ok" then a lot of these people would get a "who the heck are they" from the "regulars", and potentially be left out.
People only cause a problem if they start posting in variance with the charter. If they do then they can be warned and if required removed. If they resubscribe and cause further problems then the list can be moderated until the go away.
So far AFAIK this has only happened a couple of times in the last year or so and only this week has someone actually been removed.
The whole response is a bit of a kneejerk reaction IMHO...
If Donald would like some help with list maintenance then I'm sure there are several people here that would be happy to help.
Good idea.... clamping down on people blatently abusing the list (as opposed to those that just wander a bit off topic from ocassionally) harder and faster is the answer, not trying to make it difficult for people to join. An extra person or two to help out with list maintainance may do that.... Regards, Simon Byrnand Lurking network operatory type person iGRIN Internet