Re: [sudo-discuss] temporary email suspensions

Running a listserv is a completely thankless job. You're just witnessing how giovanni_re/john fastmail/john/john regan works. I don't think he's a bad person. He's not assaulting anyone. He is genuinely excited about computers and Linux and communities and free software. His usual mode is he joins a free culture/ community/open source software community mailing list, and then every few months or so starts cross posting interesting links or forwarding emails from one list to the other, no editing, just WHAM here read email from this other place, not realizing that if someone wants to read email from the other mailing list, they would just JOIN that mailing list, no need to forward it. He's been doing this for over 10 years. He'll be doing it long after sudoroom is gone. You usually don't notice what's happening because he's on a LOT of mailing lists, and annoying each of the mailing lists is a lot of work, so he doesn't get around to forwarding stuff to your mailing list until about a month in the cycle. Sometimes he gets super excited about something ( RADIO! ) and starts concentrating on your particular community, and boom you get the 10 emails in 1 hour problem you just saw. Unknown how to properly deal with him. People don't join his list BerkeleyTIP so he feels the need to branch out. Personally, I think it would help if he fixed the links on his site that are broken and updated and are over 4 years old now. That would be a great start. John, you have a perfectly good wiki over on BerkeleyTIP. You could update it with spectrum FCC radio announcements. You've been trying to get inspire Noisebridge and Sudoroom to grab some spectrum of their own. Getting your website in order would be a good start. Best Lovelle _____________________________________________________________ Get your own ILoveBeer.ca email, <yourname>(a)ilovebeer.caeer.ca!