Mailing Lists WAS: Re: US IT jobs going overseas creating 'IT Rust Belt'.

[admin at kclinux.net]

I was going to suggest this for kclinux.net but didn't want a war to brew.
I can quickly create a kclug at kclinux.net majordomo list and set all kinds of
restrictions to it.  Think anyone else would go for it?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Lucas Peet
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:00 PM
To: JD Runyan; kclug
Subject: Mailing Lists WAS: Re: US IT jobs going overseas creating 'IT Rust
Belt'.

At 02:06 PM 5/12/2003 -0500, JD Runyan wrote:
>Why not create a second list to post to
>for topics that have diverged too far, or add a tag to the subject line
that
>indicates the messages as such.  This would allow people to filter the
extra
>crap they don't want to the junk pile, and still read what they want.

Yeah, but we can't even get 'em to filter out spam, restrict posters to 
those subscribed, or even put a [KCLUG] tag in all the subjects so we can 
filter.  What makes you think they'd get around to doing this?

<rant>
It really upsets me that whoever started this KCLUG, registered the domain, 
and got the mailing list setup did so at a place where after the initial 
setup, nothing can get done.  This list is for the users, and when the 
users don't want something (SPAM!) steps should be taken to get rid of 
it.  It's really not a hard thing to do - to set up a mailing list 
*properly* and when they are, they're almost too easy to maintain, there's 
less junk, and no crap like this - people bitching about spam, people 
replying to the list from a spam that came in, people complaining because 
they're unable to filter messages, etc...

I'm about to the point where I'll set up another mailing list (though it 
couldn't be @kclug.org) restricted to subscribers, with a [KCLUG] tag on 
the subject, and the rest of the features just about everyone here has been 
wishing for at one time or another.  If we boycott kclug at kclug.org, and 
move to another list, maybe then the list maintainer would realize that 
they really need to do something about all this crap.
</rant>

-Lucas