Re: ADMIN NOTICE: Regarding The NEXT /$%&@*\

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

Dean

As soon as I saw this happening, I quit using M_L & I sent a message to
David, directly, not via M_L.  We have turn-over of people joining M_L & not
fully understanding what is going on when this hits ... Ok now the current
M_L membership probably understands, most of them ... we will have a lull,
then in a few weeks it will happen again, by which time we will have some new
members who not understand what is happening.

When I saw it happening, I thought
a) Looks like it started happening in evening after NORMAL people off for the
day or even the weekend, so David or any of his volunteer helpers not going
to see this or e-mail direct to them, until Saturday morning IF WE ARE LUCKY,
Monday morning otherwise.

b) Looks like Frederick server is pretty efficient ... this is bouncing back
very rapidly.
If David nor helper do not see this until Monday morning, we could have
thousands of hits from the original bounce & then some of the newer M_L
members who not fully understand what going on will do some posts to M_L
about this & cause it to multiply.

c) There should be some way for subscribers of a list to do a better job of
helping their volunteer moderators when there is some unexpected crisis with
the list, especially since these type things typically start to happen at the
beginning of a weekend.  I was speculating about one possible approach.

> Al,
>
>  In a message dated 2/9/02 1:58:20 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>  MacWheel99@aol.com writes:
>
>
>  > When this kind of thing starts to happen on a weekend & overnight,
perhaps
>  > midrange dot com needs a place where concerned e-citizens can take
>  > vigilante
>  > action while awaiting the regular cyber volunteers
>  > <<snip>>
>
>  Don't know about _THAT_, but I _DO_ know that every single person that
sent
> a
>  "stop this" message to midrange-l only made the problem worse.  Let's see,
"
> a
>  message from M-L to a guy on vacation results in an 'I'm on vacation'
>  response.  I think I'll send a message to M-L to get this problem
corrected."
>
>   Definitely _NOT_ the brightest response to the situation.  The guy's
> mailbox
>  would have eventually filled up, although that doesn't pay the bandwidth
> that
>  our overseas members have already built up.  Please, send your complaints
to
>  the various admin IDs, _NOT_ the lists in a situation like this.  I'm only
>  happy that it happened to David on vacation for once, and not _ME_ ;-)...
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Dean Asmussen


MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)