* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030328 21:28]: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:54:28PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:25:08AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > It would help if the listmaster was someone who actually *read* this list. > > > > Yeah, this listmaster-doesn't-read-the-list thing is puzzling me. I'd > > have thought reading the list was an essential prerequisite for being > > the listmaster. > > Er! You know, there are a *lot* of Debian lists. My .procmailrc says > that I read 20 of them, and it chews up really quite a lot of time. It > is not reasonable to expect the Debian listmasters to read all the > Debian lists, and, since -user is probably the one with the highest > volume, it's quite a reasonable one for them to cut out in order to be > able to deal with their considerable workload more effectively. > > You can't demand both that the listmasters read all several dozen of our > mailing lists religiously and that they deal with requests in a > plausible amount of time.
I would think that the listmaster for each list would have an interest in the discussions that take place in it. You know, they're a Debian-user like the rest of us ?? Why not ask for a volunteer or two to handle *just this list* ?? Even give this person limited powers, as in only being able to unsubscribe a user vs "full" power ?? Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
