[sumo] Please update- Time for a SML moderator???

[Joe Klemmer]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:30 -0400, Scott M. Kahn wrote:

> I agree with most of your comments about moderation.  However, the  
> mailing list is now faced with being rendered relatively irrelevant  
> except for basho time.  There are many alternatives to the list these
> days, blogs, news letters, the sumo search bar tool, and the sumo  
> forum that sumo fans can access.

	This is speaking as an old techie with a personal opinion.  It seems to
me the only reason people don't use lists as much is because they don't
know or understand them.  Blogs, news letters, searches and forums all
pale (pail?) in comparison to what can be done with a list.  However,
the way the information is presented is, aside form the content, the
most essential aspect of any communication form.  A mailing list has the
ability to present content in a way like all the other methods but it
can't do them all at once.

> Perhaps the mailing list administrator might choose to have a vote on 
> this issue if there are enough of us who are willing to sacrifice  
> moderation at this time.  Personally, I'm good either way, but it is  
> worth a discussion IMO.

	As the technical administrator I can setup a poll or something, but I'm
not the administrative administrator.  The list is governed by the
members in total so everyone is in effect an admin.  I just implement
whatever the membership wants done from a tech aspect.

Joe

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