Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: This list

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Hi,  

Fred the list manager here.  I decided to reply to this one.

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Sheila, sbraun wrote: 
 
> I'd like to see the list become more technologically up to date. As in
> html, attachments, easy-to-access archives (yahoo's are the best). If it
> doesn't, I see no reason not to join a list that does.

I'll stand by my decision to exclude attachments which are more of a 
problem than benefit in my opinion.  I fail to see the
shortcomings of Cohousing-L archives, I think they are currently
among the best around.  I particularly like that there is one link (per
year) to get to current messages - most recent on top:

http://csf.Colorado.EDU/cohousing/2003/

The search tools need improvement but work.  The subject search is
particularly useful (tho with my browser you have to reload the results
the first time).  A second set of archives are available at Yahoogroups
for those that prefer.  

BTW I expect the new version of Mailman listserv software (ver 2.1) to be
installed soon which will include some changes including the way html is 
stripped automatically.

> 
> Why are so many of the postings lately coming by way of the moderator?
> It's almost a majority these days. Is that how many postings are being
> sent to the list "in the wrong format"?

I was curious about this so I used the subject search to find that so
far there have been 
209 posts to cohousing-L in Feb (search for "2003.02" )
 13 posts from me as moderator  (search for "2003.02" + Fred )
Of the 13, 
  7 were reformated to remove attachments
  6 were for other reasons

I'm still pondering Gregg Dunn's  comments including
"suppressed a message of mine" and "censorship of this list"
which I dont understand, I've requested details off-list.

With very few exceptions (almost all clearly SPAM), everything that gets
sent to cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org from a subscribed address gets
distributed.  You're welcome to post specific complaints of censorship.

I have have over the years made the decisions about the operation of the
list tho I have had lots of input.  I think meaningful consensus among
500+ people online about such things is impractical.  I have generally
felt that discussion of listserv operations were a distraction for most
subscribers and therefore discouraged posting such messages.  If you feel
you must post on list operations, go ahead.

Fred, cohousing-L list manager

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