[advocacy-discuss] Mail List Policy

[Jim Grisanzio]

Oh, one more thing: I'm looking for two people in the Advocacy CG to 
share list management/moderator responsibilities with me. We get very 
little spam right now (but that will change), so it's not a big deal at 
present, but when I travel or am off on vacation, it would be good to 
have others who can respond to any issues. Let me know if you are 
interested.

Thanks,

Jim
-- 
Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris




Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Hi ....
> 
> I'd like to point all the user group list owners to the OpenSolaris 
> Website guidelines http://opensolaris.org/os/site_guidelines/ and remind 
> everyone of the mail list policy:
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Mail Lists
> 
> Each community is responsible for the proper management
> of their mailing lists. Lists are subject to review based
> on the TOU and may be suspended or removed due to insufficient
> traffic or poor management of non-member message postings.
> 
> Insufficient traffic is defined as
> 
>      * No posts in the last month;
>      * Or less than 3 posts in the last 3 months.
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Basically, if mail lists are not used and properly managed, they will be 
> deleted or at the very least suspended. There are several user group 
> lists that have not been used for many months, and from time to time the 
> website team has to go in an clean out massive amounts of spam because 
> the list is not managed at all. I will ping those lists and leaders 
> individually as the migration process continues.
> 
> Managing your list should be much easier now with the mailman upgrade 
> recently. There are a couple of new features you may have noticed: 
> First, under "Tend to pending moderator requests" there is an option to 
> "Discard all messages marked Defer" and under "General Options" there is 
> an option at the bottom of the page to "Discard held messages older than 
> this number of days [...] Use 0 for no automatic discarding." Since I 
> manage advocacy-discuss, I have this set to 7 days.
> 
> I'll make these policies and features more clear in the user group 
> proposal process, and I'll also put it in as a reminder in every new 
> user group list I create.
> 
> Jim