[ale] ALE Central discussion from Jan meeting

[philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)]

On 01/25/2017 12:51 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I forgot to mention the need for a mailing list manager.
> 
> This person will have to keep the list running (pretty easy from a
> technical standpoint, no so much from a culture standpoint) by emailing
> people off-list to inform them of posts that are violating the generally
> good-natured spirit of ALE and then following up with blocking the user
> if the crap-spewing continues. I've not had to do this is quite some time.
> 
> The ale-jobs list is managed now by Jerald Sheets (THANKS!!). The main
> list is set for automated crap dumping so it doesn't required much time.
> The jobs list requires full moderation but the main ale list (or the
> others) don't.
> 
> Volunteers?
> 
> NOTE: whoever volunteers needs to have some approval of the currently
> active list people. If people reply on or offlist with a bunch of
> "Harumpf! NO!" then the search will continue.

I'm willing, but I'd need at least one more person to pop in when I'm
travelling for business.

Phil