[pagan-magik] The Keys to Pagan Magickal Activism

[nina]

hi & sorry - i just had a computer free time (not entirely voluntary, 
though very welcome) that's why i haven't sorted the list issue yet.

i'm very happy to pass on my administrator role, i really have no 
emotional attachment to it, and like ian, could easily do with less 
responsibilities. that just as a clarification... (cos steve for one 
thought my behaviour displayed fascist tendencies..)

ok here go the practicalities:

basically, there are the following fundamental decisions to be made ASAP:

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    (i) is the list 'open' - i.e. anyone can subscribe - or is approval 
by so called list-moderators needed?

    (ia) if so, who wants to be list moderator (no one is at the moment, 
the list is open)?

    (ii) is the list archive (i.e. collection of all postings) public 
(accessible by non-members) or private (accessible only by members)? 
please remember that even a 'private' archive is not fully secure - we 
should of course *always* be careful sending sensitive information via 
the internet.

    (iii) who wants to be list administrator? - there are two ownership 
roles associated with each mailing list.. the list administrators are 
the people who have ultimate control over all parameters of this mailing 
list.. they are able to change any list configuration variable available 
through the administration web pages (examples are changing such things 
as whether the archive is public or private, changing the introductory 
messages, mass-subscribing a group of people, changing the admin 
password etc).
((the other ownership role is list moderator - the list moderators have 
more limited permissions; they are not able to change any list 
configuration variable, but they are allowed to tend to pending 
administration requests, including approving or rejecting held 
subscription requests, and disposing of held postings. Of course, the 
list administrators can also tend to pending requests.))
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can i make the following suggestion:

anybody who wants to should have a look at the admin webpages to see 
what being a list administrator means - i.e. which list variables there 
are that the administrator can change and determine through the admin 
interface - this might help people to make a decision of whether they 
want to be administrators or not.

to access the admin pages you need the password which i can mail 
off-list to anyone who wants to have a look.

the password can always be chagned later if we decide to only have a 
small number of people with admin status.

may i also add that being an administrator does not at all have to be 
about who has the power *over* the list - it is really in the end about 
who takes responsibility for certain things - list admins are also 
automatically on the aktivix-admin-support-list so they get more mail to 
wade through (hasn't been very much though for the last couple of 
weeks).. as long as roles of power/responsibility are fluid and 
temporary i cannot see how they should pose any threat to anyone's 
anarchist sensibilities...

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love
nina