List management

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Mon Jan 5 04:10:08 CET 2004


Indeed, I am the sleeper behind the wheel of the users list.  Work, 
life, starting a new company, and Nagios 2.0 keep me too busy to 
manage the list much.  I would suggest that someone (preferably two) 
people step forward and volunteer to admin the -users and/or -devel 
lists.

Here's what I've done in the short-term to deal with some issues 
(similiar steps have been in place for most of the other lists for a 
few months now):

1. The nagios-users and nagios-devel lists are now closed to non-
members.  You must now be a member of the lists to post.  This is a 
little undesireable, but certainly better than dealing with spam.  It 
will not, however, help with those stupid vacation programs that 
respond to the list.

2. Messages to the -user and -devel lists that are held up for 
administrative approval are now automatically rejected every hour via 
a cron job.  I don't like doing this, but until someone volunteers to 
handle list administration, this is reality.  Most messages requiring 
administrative approval involve spam messages, so I don't think its a 
big deal.

Any volunteers?  Prepare to be spammed if you do volunteer though... 
Spambots grab your address of the list website and if you use a 
fake/obfuscated address, you don't get administrative notices. :-(


On 4 Jan 2004 at 19:07, James Turnbull wrote:

> Dave Close wrote:
> > Wayne Mery wrote:
> >> It doesn't hurt to have multiple owners/moderaters. A good
> >> opportunity for non-coding readers of this forum to step up to the
> >> plate and help the community.  (Assuming the owners are open to
> >> it.)
> >
> > Since we haven't heard anything from anyone claiming to be a manager
> > of the list, I'm beginning to suspect there isn't anyone doing the
> > job. In that case, it becomes tricky for anyone else to gain
> > authority to help.
> 
> According to Sourceforge Ethan Galstad is the list manager.  I imagine
> he is well and truly occupied with Nagios 2.0 to be doing list admin.
> 
> Regards
> 
> James Turnbull


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org



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