[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Overall Mailing List Administrator

[Ken Causey]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:38 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Oops. Ken - I missed the "overall" in your mail, would that mean I  
> accidentally volunteered to manage every single squeak mailing list?  
> I can't really do that, I thought it was for the Board mailing list  
> only ... or could someone clue me in what "overall admin" means? Are  
> there other candidates to do this?
> 
> - Bert -

No, no worries.  As Marcus has otherwise stated it shouldn't be much
work.  What it entails is for the most part simply creating new lists
(or deleting old ones I suppose) that need to be created because you are
given access to the mechanism to do so.  Also this gives you access to
each individual list but that does not mean you are expected to handle
every little request or go through the moderated messages, each list has
its own administrator or set of administrators for that.  But if someone
loses their password, or the existing administrator disappears, then you
are in a position to slot someone else in, otherwise without the
individual list password we would be stuck.

There are perhaps some other corner cases that could come up, but it
would be pretty rare.  While Marcus was doing the job he did work to
move lists we had setup under ezmlm to mailman, for example, but he
completed that and I can't immediately foresee anything else of that
sort.

Ken

P.S. And as Marcus also stated you are backed up by the box-admins team
for any real work.  The main thing is that old chestnut of mine that I
simply don't feel comfortable with anyone but a Board member having
access each and every mailing list including the private archives of the
Board mailing list.  There is another reason, which is that there is
another board member job which is the Teams Leader.  One of this
person's jobs is to see that everyone team that wants one has a mailing
list.  It's very handy if these two jobs are done by the same person
(which is what I did) but still pretty handy for it to be two seperate
board members.
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