Mailing List Improvements (was Re: Arabic And Islamic Books

[arenn]

Etienne M. Gagnon (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:04:47PM -0500, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> > We are running on the GNU mailing list system.  ...
> > Unfortunately, I have nothing to do with this list from an admin
> > perspective.  Does anybody out there have an idea on how to set this up?
> 
> The Classpath list is managed by the "Mailman" software.  According to
> the list web page, somebody with email address <address@hidden>
> has this list's "administrative password", which allows you to administrate
> the list.  I guess this is a more-less dummy address (a black-hole), as I
> have tried before emailing this person and got no reply...
> 
> As every mailing-list can get its own admin password, you could ask the FSF
> people to change the classpath admin password (if they use a common password
> for all their list: bad idea...), then give back the mailing-list 
> administration 
> priviledges to Classpath project administrators, as it should be.
> (The GNU "mail.gnu.org" system's administrator has full control to revoke
> these priviledges.)
> 
> Do you have any idea, who in the FSF organization, has decision power on such
> matters (other than RMS, hopefully)?

I can track down someone to make the change, assuming there are no FSF policy
problems.  But we need a moderator to sort through non-member postings.
I simply do not have time to do it.  Are you (or someone else) volunteering?

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Aaron M. Renn (address@hidden) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/