[wlug_org] I Vote to kick Michael off the main list!

[Tony Wills]

At 22:44 19/03/2006, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
>For clear violation of the rules that are set out by the list owner, and
>discussed MANY times over...
>...
></PersonalRantOver>

Glad you got that off your chest :-)

I disagree with tossing him off.  He is a consistant contributer to the 
list and I can't really see that advertising free give-aways is blatant 
enough to trigger such a drastic action.

If you want to institute some formula for tossing people off the list, I 
think natural justice means that the criteria should be spelt out very 
explicitly, and a formal warning given (by someone we give authority to 
send such warnings, not a self appointed sheriff ;-) before action is taken.

Personally I think we should
1) Have a clever mailing list that directs replies to [OT] posts back to 
the original poster, rather than the list (then we just have to persuade 
everyone to ensure "[OT]" is in the appropriate subject lines (and throw 
people off the list if it isn't ;-)

2) Automatically sign everyone up to the wellylug, wellylugorg, and 
wellylugtrade lists when they subscribe to wellylug - they can then 
unsubscribe from the other lists if theyreally don't want them.
(This might get more people participating in wellylugorg and if people know 
the wellylugtrade list has most people on it, they would be more inclined 
to use it (at present it has 40 subscribers and very little traffic - 
probably more buy/sell/free/job topics are posted to the main list than the 
trade list ;-)

Tony.