[Syndicate] admin and else

[Claudia Westermann <media@ezaic.de>]

So, you guys, all,

huiiii.......... there must be really bad weather in some parts of this 
world.... ...that makes you sitting in front of the computer all the time 
and providing us all with so many things to read and think about...
(please do not send weather reports, I am about to believe it.. )

a few things to say:

No, there is no moderation on this list. And Anna and I will not do any 
moderation in future either. (see mail in old archives).
But I think it might be worth to think about funding for the client side 
moderation tool. (  ;-) logic worked ).
We will see what we find out to make that possible. But so far one of the 
next things I will do is, that I will put the filter information and links 
that Amy has sent about week ago on the web page. If you have problems with 
filtering, you can ask also.

The web page is in an interims stage. I talked to Jaka Zeleznikar and I 
hope he will do at least some of the new web design and content. Anybody, 
who is interested in helping or doing something is very welcome and might 
write to me or to Jaka.

Anna already explained that we are running this list now on a different 
system than majordomo called Sympa.
This is a change but has some advantages. You may have noticed that this 
list is a lot faster now, for example.
In any case of trouble it might be worth to look at the web interface of 
this list and check it out.

The web interface makes me think of a few other things. If you enter there, 
you will notice that there are two terms: 'owner' and 'moderator'. This is 
part of the system, but as I found out yesterday (Atle you better sit down) 
it might be possible to change that. I am reading through the documentation 
at the moment, but you have to be a little patient, because this doc has 
many pages.
These above mentioned terms just mean that Anna and I have a different 
access to the system in order that we can manage the list. So we will see 
if we can change that into something like 'secretary' or 'librarian' for 
example, which would express much better what we do here. If this list 
belongs to anyone, than to the s*bscribers and 'moderation' we do not do 
anyway.
We will also explain the admin stuff to anybody interested, because it also 
could be done by different people in a weekly switch.

Anna mentioned a meeting and I think that is a good idea. So we might think 
about meeting at the Ars (that's new to me, until now I never had the 
feeling that I would miss something, when I would not go there).
Unfortunately this is in short time and I guess many people might not be 
able to go there. I would suggest to do the meeting but to also provide all 
the stuff discussed about there to all the other s*bscribers and if there 
is something to decide not to do it before it is discussed on the list.

so far for now
Claudia





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