Hello, I can probably help a little here. I'm from Portugal, which has the same timezone England does, IIRC. Regards, Rui On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:11 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: >Hi, > >I'm sending this e-mail to all owners of a mailing list on >'mail.gnome.org'. I've been thinking of ways to improve the GNOME >mailman service, in particular, how to make list moderation easier for >list owners, and the GNOME sysadmin team. > >Currently, many of the lists are owned (or co-owned) by >'gnome-listadmin gnome org', which is an alias to >'gnome-sysadmin gnome org'. Yes, the GNOME sysadmins also get tons of >mailman moderator requests every day, and a whole batch of daily >reminders too. I've noticed, from watching the flood of daily reminders >over the last few months, that the number of moderator requests for some >lists just keeps going up - i.e. the real list owners are failing to >moderate their list, so in some cases it's being left to the >'gnome-listadmin' co-owner (the sysadmins!). Every now and then, I spend >a while going through them, and have mostly managed to keep the number >of outstanding requests per list down to less than triple figures, but >as 'gnome-listadmin' is not the (co)-owner for all the lists, there are >possibly still some lists whose moderation queue had grown by several >months. > >I figured that what we need is for all of the moderator requests to be >directed to a small 'moderator team', a number of people in different >timezones whose responsibility is to respond to the moderator requests >each morning for their timezone. This is intended to remove the >moderator burden from the list owner who may already be overburdened >with development duties. It also acts to ensure that there is a >reasonable response time for genuine requests, so people don't send >important mail to a list only for it to be sucked into a rotting >moderator queue. It also means that 'gnome-listadmin' (the sysadmins) >can be relieved of much of the daily moderation trivia. > >So, if you would like the moderator team to moderate your list for you, >please set the moderator field for your list(s) to 'moderator gnome org' >and remove any reference to 'gnome-listadmin gnome org' from the owner >field. I would propose doing this step automatically, but there may be >some lists for which moderation might not be appropriate, and/or some >list admins might prefer to moderate their own lists. Please also send a >brief note to 'moderator gnome org' so that I can maintain a 'list of >moderated lists' and so I can set a moderator password for your list, >which will be known to the moderator team. > >Currently, the moderator team is just me, so moderation requests will be >dealt with once a day (most days anyway), until I can find more >volunteers. If you, or anyone you know can spare a few minutes a day to >deal with a few moderation requests, please contact me. People in >uncommon timezones would be ideal ;) > >For more details on this hare-brained scheme, this e-mail was based on a >similar one I sent earlier to gnome-infrastructure: > >http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2005-January/msg00015.html > >Regards, > >-- >Ross > -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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