Matt Oquist wrote:
> Robert Schumann wrote:
All three of you now have admin privs.
Thx.
Hi people, and thanks for sorting all this top-level stuff out, SFI+Robert.
I CC this to our two local lists (in order to draw a line under the
issue and get moving again towards Software Freedom Day) - CLUG
<http://clug.net.nz/index.php/EmailListFAQ> "there is no" Canterbury
Linux Users Group <http://clug.net.nz>, and GNUz
<http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz> "GNU & FSF issues,
especially in Canterbury NZ" friendly to Freenix! <http://www.hackstop.org>.
I notice that Rik recently posted (perhaps it was still in the old
forums?) a response to Don Gould, who had indicated his willingness to
be a forum moderator, indicating that Rik was willing to vouch for Don.
Now I don't know if Don is still mad at us after the complaints he sent
SFI, but he does seem like a fantastically enthusiastic person whom it
would be a pity to lose.
I agree here, but he sounds like he's made the decision to call it
quits on SFD. :\
Matt's formally correct, although CLUG's prominent new 'character' will
probably be back - as a fulltime *nix user this time (we hope). His
contribution may then be positive. We are uninterested if not.
Yes Robert, it was the old SFD forum, just before it came down. We have
been devising ways of encouraging newcomers, to a fault (tolerance). I'd
had enough second thoughts to suspend my endorsement, and in the end
it's better to wait & see on this. We're currently having our first
normal quiet day in weeks, having waved the light sabre blindingly close
to Don's troll-morphing knees.
With a grand total of 2 posts on the forums we are clearly not short of
admins (lots of chiefs, only two indians...), but shall we invite Don to
be a moderator?
I'd rather let things lie the way they are for the moment. I think SFD
is growing OK (we have 104 registrations now!), and maybe Don will
come back after we get our act together a bit better, and after he
gets some other projects out of his way.
Fair and true. With UK-US-NZ monitoring, we have many timezones covered
now for keeping the forum clean. We should find reps from other zones
(e.g. Perth?), if we need them. But thanks Don, for adding to the weight
for action.
PS - I don't know what admin settings are required on phpBB to be most
secure against spam - and I'm not sure what settings were used on the
previous forum that proved so ineffective. Do we just cross our fingers
and hope?
<snip guruspeak; no.. I've put it back in:>
"I think the inclusion of the verification code (or whatever it is when
a human has to read those text-graphics that prevent automatic
registrations) is a major step in the right direction. In fact, I hope
it's a sufficient step all by itself. Only a couple of the previous
SPAMmers bothered to post more than once as the same user, so manual
registrations probably aren't worth it."
--matt
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