[KI-LC] [BoT] Revised DRAFT: Policy for Joining Groups and Group Discussion Lists
John Fraser
john.fraser at mednetworld.com
Thu Jul 2 11:36:25 PDT 2009
+1
John Fraser
MEDNETWorld.com
From: lc-bounces at kantarainitiative.org [mailto:lc-bounces at kantarainitiative.org] On Behalf Of Brett McDowell
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:14 PM
To: Joni Brennan
Cc: Leadership Council; Roger.Martin at corp.aol.com; Kantara BoT
Subject: Re: [KI-LC] [BoT] Revised DRAFT: Policy for Joining Groups and Group Discussion Lists
Given all the issues I've noticed being raised in the development of this policy, it's probably best to simply not allow any posting to the lists from non-participants in the group.
How do folks feel about tightening this up to that level?
Brett McDowell | +1.413.652.1248 | http://info.brettmcdowell.com
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Joni Brennan <joni at ieee-isto.org<mailto:joni at ieee-isto.org>> wrote:
Thanks Brett.
I believe it would benefit us to develop operational policies (similar to what the LC has done) to explain the implications and responsibilities associated with the WG/DG Roles. This policy would answer questions like - When can I 'accept' a rejected message'?
Also, as there is no DG Secretary role this item would fall under the DG Vice-chair or Chair responsibilties.
Finally, we should consider putting a requested change in the LC queue to update the Operating Procedures to reflect this item under the appropriate role duties.
Cheers,
Joni
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Brett McDowell <email at brettmcdowell.com<mailto:email at brettmcdowell.com>> wrote:
Here is what the MailMan software documentation says in this regard:
There are two ownership roles associated with each mailing list. The list administrators are the people who have ultimate control over all parameters of this mailing list. They are able to change any list configuration variable available through these administration web pages.
The list moderators have more limited permissions; they are not able to change any list configuration variable, but they are allowed to tend to pending administration requests, including approving or rejecting held subscription requests, and disposing of held postings. Of course, the list administrators can also tend to pending requests.
Brett McDowell | +1.413.652.1248 | http://info.brettmcdowell.com
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Roger Martin <roger.martin at corp.aol.com<mailto:roger.martin at corp.aol.com>> wrote:
I'm out of my field when it comes to mail list administration and standard terminology
Would anyone on this thread care to enlighten me (us).
Do we need to define those terms?
....roger M
J. Trent Adams wrote:
Roger -
In order to avoid any misunderstandings, would it make sense to define
"Moderate" and "Administer"?
- Trent
Roger Martin wrote:
Joni,
I had a conversation with Brett about this issue because I was not
understanding the motivations for proposing this change.
Based on that discussion, I understand the motivation for this change
to be that:
* Staff will administer all Lists, but there is a valid concern
that a requirement to have Staff moderate all Lists will be a
significant burden on Staff resources.
* We can configure each List so any email received from a
non-Participant gets an auto-reply that says "You do not have
permission to post to this List. To do so, you must sign the
Participation Agreement for this Group." (or something similar)
* It may be helpful for the leadership of a Group to know (1) who
joins and who leaves a list as an Observer, and (2) who attempts
to post as an Observer. As a result, you proposed that a member
of the Group Leadership (Group secretary) be assigned moderator
status in order to be able to track this.
Under the Kantara Initiative Bylaws, a Group is not required to have a
secretary. However, the Bylaws do state that when "a WG does not have
a secretary it is the responsibility of the Chair to ensure that those
duties."
Given the above, I believe the following changes will be sufficient to
achieve what you are proposing:
1. Reword the first bullet in Section (5) to read:
* All Lists are administered by Staff and moderated by the
secretary of the Group to which the List is associated.
2. Delete the sixth bullet in section (5)
* Group Lists are not moderated.
...rogerM
Joni Brennan wrote:
Hi Roger,
I have drafted the suggested addition below:
Section 5
* All Lists are administered and moderated by the Staff. In addition
to the Staff moderator, each list will be moderated by the Secretary
officer responsible for that list's associated group. The Secretary
moderator function provides an additional layer of operational
information to the officers of each group.
Please feel free to word smith my suggestion as you may see fit.
Also, as an FYI to the group, we did find the bug causing Rogers edit
access woes and have resolved the issue.
Cheers,
Joni
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Roger Martin
<roger.martin at corp.aol.com<mailto:roger.martin at corp.aol.com> <mailto:roger.martin at corp.aol.com><mailto:roger.martin at corp.aol.com>> wrote:
I have attached the revised draft of the "Policy for Joining
Groups and Group Discussion Lists" based on the discussions of
the past two days. I still don't have edit permission on the
wiki page, but will post the new draft there when I do.
Additional Discussion:
1. Joni posted a proposal to one officer from each WG and DG a a
moderator of any Lists associated with that WG or DG. It's not
clear from the email discussion what the resolution of this
proposal is. As a result I did not make any changes to the
text. If we need to make that change, would someone please post
the specific text changes to be made?
2. Are there any further edits needed before we move to adopt
this as a Kantara Initiative policy?
...rogerM
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