Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Your input is needed.

[Todd Davis <tdavis@msfw.com>]

Personally I don't have a problem with on-topic questions no matter
where the origin happens to be.  However, if it makes more work for you
administratively to allow the questions, then I also don't see a problem
redirecting them to other resources.


On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 00:51, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> For whatever reason, we're starting to get a lot of subscribers from
> outside the area.  And I don't mean from St. Louis (since that's where
> I'm at, I'm not complaining about anyone from this area ;).  I'm
> talking about people from other continents.
> 
> So, assuming these people are asking valid Linux questions (newbie or
> otherwise), do I
> 
>     a) tell them this is a semi-private list for people in the
>        immediate geographical area, and possibly point them to better
>        places to find support
> 
> or
> 
>     b) blindly approve on-topic posts?
> 
> Feel free to answer me on or off-list.  I'm really curious to see what
> everyone's opinion is.
> 
> For the record, I've been walking some sort of middle ground for a
> while now, applying my own judgement.  In the distant past, my policy
> was simply to tell people outside the area to go away.  (That was in
> the *very* distant past, and only on the SILUG list, IIRC.)  Trying to
> keep up with all the lists has become enough of a burden lately (given
> my schedule and the immense amount of spam and virus mail that get
> bounced to me for moderation) that I'd prefer to just do one or the
> other now.
> 
> I'd like as many opinions as possible.  I'm going to go with whatever
> the consensus is.
> 
> Steve
-- 
Todd Davis (tdavis@msfw.com)
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE #807101281603181)


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