"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> To get things started, here is a first draft:
>
> Title: <Brin-L Constitution>
>
> 1. The Listowners are responsible for solving any technical problems
> Members may have with their subscription.
Agreed. (Section I)
> 2. All Members, including the Listowners, may call on an other Member if he
> or she is showing undesirable conduct.
A little vague. Maybe Section II needs articles to articulate what is
meant by "call on" and "undesireable conduct".
> 3. These calls are to be made off-list. To keep a complete record of these
> calls, Members are requested to CC or BCC such a message to the Listowners.
CC'ing to third parties isn't a bad idea. However, maybe this shouldn't
be necessarily included in Listowner duties. Maybe some sort of
committee of listmembers, whose membership should neither be restricted
to nor exclude listowners.
Listowners are chosen more for technical expertise and availability to
help deal with the listserver. The committee would be more likely made
up of people with people skills. (Not that technical skills and people
skills are mutually exclusive.) Opening it to folks who don't feel they
have the resources (time & skills) necessary for listownership would be
a good thing. If it got to the point where action by listowners became
necessary, the committee would report to the listowners and ask them to
take action.
Heck, maybe make *that* function an elected office, terms to be thrashed
out in later discussion.
This is about as far as I got on thinking about the specifics of
Jeroen's proposal.
Anyway, just a few thoughts.
Julia
