[GRLUG] List Moderation

[Colin Vallance]

Do we have an IRC channel anywhere?  That seems like a better place  
for petty bickering ;)

Seriously though, a channel with a bot that logs everything and posts  
it up somewhere might be good.  Sometimes it's nice to have a place to  
pop in to and ask a question when you're in the middle of something.   
(I find any X11 stuff I do tends to be a problem).


On May 14, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Godwin wrote:

> Greets,
>
> I've managed our list from day one.  Should anyone have comments,
> requests, etc. please feel free to email me directly.
>
> Having said that, I've chosen not to moderate our list because, as
> adults, I think we all can/should use our own moderation/discretion.
> Yeah, things have flared up from time to time and, having been around
> long enough, tend to see them all calm down again.
>
> I, like Justin, have on occasion thought that others, who perhaps may
> have joined our list in the middle of one of our "interesting
> debates", may get intimidated or even discouraged at the prospect of
> asking what may seem trivial to most of us.  Still, I've chosen not to
> moderate.  If you follow my posts, you'll notice I either try to say
> something helpful or just "hang back".  (Truth is, I'm deathly afraid
> of showing my true ignorance.)  ;-)
>
> Would anyone like to see a separate list, perhaps "chats at grlug.org"
> where we can digress a topic?  If we wish to move far off from the
> original post/request, we can simply Reply to original post, but send
> to the other list instead.  For archiving purposes, it should help
> those who google us searching for help from having to sift through
> tons of irrelevant posts.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> G-
>
> P.S.  Yeah, I remember Van - Slack/KDE user and rocker (moved to AZ
> [http://www.dedserius.com/]), Jim - GVSU SuSE/KDE linux advocate (I
> believe he moved to Det area); and who could forget Ann - Redhat/Gnome
> user?  She used to code Delphi for drive belt mechanisms at Xrite.
> ...trip down memory lane.
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