Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:35AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:54:28PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:25:08AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > It would help if the listmaster was someone who actually *read* this list.
> >
> > Yeah, this listmaster-doesn't-read-the-list thing is puzzling me. I'd
> > have thought reading the list was an essential prerequisite for being
> > the listmaster.
>
> Er! You know, there are a *lot* of Debian lists. My .procmailrc says
> that I read 20 of them, and it chews up really quite a lot of time. It
> is not reasonable to expect the Debian listmasters to read all the
> Debian lists, and, since -user is probably the one with the highest
> volume, it's quite a reasonable one for them to cut out in order to be
> able to deal with their considerable workload more effectively.
>
> You can't demand both that the listmasters read all several dozen of our
> mailing lists religiously and that they deal with requests in a
> plausible amount of time.
Depends on how many listmasters there are behind that email address...
OK, I'm happy to accept that there aren't enough. Given that the whole
thing is volunteer-based, that's fair enough.
It still seems odd, though, to administer something without knowing
what's going on in it. To me, the title 'listmaster' implies someone
who does know what's going on in the list. Maybe my expectations have
been warped by too much GROGGing at a formative age.
Pigeon
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