[TriLUG] Call for a vote: Trash dead old lists

[Chris Hedemark]

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 05:11 pm, you wrote:

> Education Education Subcommittee list  - No archive even...totally dead

Kill.

> Hosting setup Hosting for local software projects  - very dead

This one has merit.  It's very bursty.  Dead right now, though.  Methinks the 
peanut gallery would have fits if we talked too much about hosting on this 
list.

> Security_talk Security Talk for TriLUG presentation - no archive even

Kill.

> Welcome Welcome Wagon to help new LUG users  - no archive even

Kill.

> Regardless of the intention of these lists originally they can be regarded
> as complete flops.

The education list had its place for a little while but it seems to be 
obsolete now.

> Please signify a "+1" if you agree that:
>
> these dead lists should be removed and their topics just discussed on the
> main lists (trilug at trilug.org)

I'd love to use the main list more.  Just get the peanut gallery to 
understand that, take their prozac, and chill out.

> trilug and dev should be linked off of the trilug.org/communication.html
> page or the link should point to the listinfo page.

There are lots of things that should happen on www.trilug.org but 
unfortunately you can't set high expectations on volunteers.

> I don't think this is particularly binding but it will at least make the
> opinion of the group known on whether we wish to have lots of little mail
> lists growing everywhere to give fodder to whiners about "off post" posts.

I'm one of the guys that LIKES the idea of having other mailing lists, 
especially to discuss things that are largely off topic here (again, like the 
*BSD's).  The SC has shot me down on those requests, so you're getting your 
way more often then you may think.  Unfortunately there are maybe half a 
dozen people who actually do anything in the LUG on a regular basis (maybe a 
few more, I don't know) so the subcommittee list idea was probably doomed 
from the start.

> Fragment the group all to heck so that some people don't have to spend a
> nanosecond of scrolling or hitting delete for the average of 5-10 messages
> a year they get on these topics.

If trilug at trilug.org will be a more appropriate and welcoming place to 
discuss hosting issues IN DEPTH, so be it.  If trilug at trilug.org is going to 
be more welcoming of non-Linux open source OS discussions (provided there is 
an appropriate subject header), I'd love to see that.

Storage and bandwidth are cheap.

Delete key still hasn't broken yet, and believe me I've tried hard.