[council] Request for a report of mailing list creation

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales <vany@sdnp.org.pa>]

Elizabeth, and all:

I think is time to put things by written.

For those that doesn't know what I do, I am a Network Administrator.
My charge says Information Technology Specialist, but amongst my tasks are
managing a Linux server with services of web, mail, ftp, mailing list and
DNS.

I am sorry for you Elizabeth but setting-up one list only requires five
minutes, at least to me.

I am very disapointed about figures that Elizabeth has told to the NC.

I request a written report about what activities are done during the
creation of one mailing list that the AFNIC staff follows.   I am sure
there are things they are doing that are not needed to do or can be done
in a shorter time.

Best Regards
Vany



On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alexander Svensson wrote:

> I have listened to the Names Council teleconference
> meeting (thanks, Bret!), and it turns out that,
> according to the Secretariat, the setup time for
> the five new GA sublists was about *twenty* hours of
> secretariat work,

> the typical maintenance costs are about
> *two* hours per day (Philip Sheppard referring to figures by
> Elisabeth Porteneuve,


> DNSO Secretariat; unfortunately it
> is very much at the end of the 14 MB audio file Bret Fausett
> recorded).
>   http://www.lextext.com/nc05092001.html


> If you listen to the NC discussion of the issue, you
> will probably /not/ get the impression that this is a ploy
> to silence the uncomfortable voices or something alike
> [just to make sure: I'm obviously not addressing Roberto
> here!]. Philip Sheppard: "As I understand, for reasons of
> history, there are two main GA lists, one of which was
> designed to be entirely open, the other one was moderated.
> The one [list] that is moderated is the one that is used
> by hundreds, and the one that's entirely open tends to
> be used as a duplicate list and has a current subscription
> of about ten; and I was wondering if it was not time, in
> terms of being pragmatic, to suggest the closure of that
> list in light of these new five, which would save a
> little bit of administrative time." The other NC members
> agreed.



> This said, I agree with Roberto that the GA-full list should
> be continued nonetheless. I would assume that any tasks
> connected with archiving and dealing with subscriptions
> are much more time-consuming for all the other lists. The
> GA-full has very few subscribers and, as Roberto mentions,
> the fact that it is unmoderated should make the administration
> even easier. There is little to be gained moneywise,
> but there is a real risk of returning to an earlier point and
> state of discussion which we had hoped to have gotten past.
>
> I ask Philip and the other NC members to reconsider this step,
> especially as it is indeed the /moderation/ which requires
> extra work:
>   http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc05/msg00301.html
>
> Best regards,
> /// Alexander
>
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Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
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