Date   : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:54:52 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Mailing list

On 13/11/2009 13:06, samwise wrote:

> If we can't get hold of him, do enough of you feel strongly enough
> about the email header issue, and the other concerns that Michael has
> raised about the list being maintained by someone who appears not to
> be a regular contributor to the list - and is also apparently hard to
> get hold of privately - to want to migrate to a new list?

Much as the Reply-To irritates me, unless/until something else goes 
wrong, staying here suits me better.  It does concern me that James 
seems to be invisible at the moment, but there could be many reasons for 
that, not all sinister.  A similar thing happens, often for long periods 
of time, on another list I use.

Does anyone remember if list subscription is fully automated, or if sub 
requests have to be approved?  If the latter (as I suspect) then we 
perhaps have a problem :-)

As for the off-topic traffic, I see it as just another topic that isn't 
of direct lasting interest.  It isn't/wasn't high volume, and most lists 
I'm on have similarly short-lived bursts of off-topic traffic once in a 
while.  Nothing to get exercised about.

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York