[NSRCA-discussion] List rules - getting Marty off the hook

[Tom Simes]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:32:14 -0500
"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <moleski at canisius.edu> wrote:

> CLARIFICATION BESIDE THE POINT:
> 
> So far as I know, I'm not moderating or managing this list.

Thanks for fielding the question anyway Marty!  Michael Laggis
<fishgod at mail2web.com> is the nscra-discussion list administrator.

> It is a service contributed by one of the webteam.  I'm not
> sure whether he wants to be anonymous, so I'm leaving his
> name out of this for the moment.

You're a true gentleman Marty.

> So far as I know, the NSRCA is benefiting from the donation
> and not making any contributions for the upkeep of the list
> server (I may be wrong about this).  My impression is that
> the list is a labor of love and that we're all indebted
> to our benefactor.

I'm a system and network admin by trade and to paraphrase Max Lucado, if
you want to help then do first what you do best.  I own and administer
the server that the nsrca-discussion list is hosted on and I provide the
service at no cost as my contribution to the pattern community.  No
donations have ever been solicited or accepted and that's the way I
prefer it.

I apologize for continuing this thread.  I wasn't going to reply, but I
just couldn't abide the assertion that the list server is somehow being
used to punish an individual because of their opinions.  That buck stops
here and as far as I am concerned, the only valid reasons to take
administrative action against a list user are continued and deliberate
abuse of the service, the server or other list members.  I own the
server, but it is administered at the direction of the NSRCA leadership.

A few figures for the curious (or bored):
The community helped me get the archives off the ground in
2005 by forwarding their collections of list e-mail going as far back as
2002.  As of the last indexing run, we had 48707 pattern specific
documents in the archive.  In 2006 lists.nsrca.org served up 667,440
unique page views from the list archives.    

Now, please let this thread die.  I'm really jealous of everyone who has
everything so dialed in for next season that they are spending their
precious R/C time debating list policies...

Tom
 
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