Isn't there a message board for RootsWeb Mailing List administrators? Are their questions only handled over the Listowners mailing list?

No, there's no board for mailing list admins. Mailing list issues can be brought up by list administrators on the Listowners, NEWBIE-LISTOWNER, or L_O_A_F lists.

*GASP!*

What- and let Le Great Unwashed have access to the inner workings of List_Adminhood?

Perish the thought!!

;)

If you mean because lists are publicly archived...so are BOARDS. And Newbie-Listowner is NOT archived.

Joan

Joan,

I mean because there is a vast difference between allowing someone to read about a past action vs allowing someone to be part of that past action at the time it happens.

;)

" . . . allowing someone to be part of that past action at the time it happens."

Time travel?

Nope- List membership limitation

Andy wrote:
allowing someone to be part of that past action at the time it happens and List membership limitation

My reply: Say what?

Lists (by their very nature) EXIST in the present and listowners and Newbie-Listowner deal with CURRENT issues list admins face. List member can respond in the present to current issues. "Old" listowners posts serve merely as a reference of what took place on a list at any given time. There isn't much call for dredging up OLD issues that list admins faced one or two years in the past as might occur on a board.

I'm really not sure what you mean by list membership limitations unless you mean that people need to admin a list to join Listowners-L. Who else would need to belong given the topic of the list?

Joan

"unless you mean that people need to admin a list to join Listowners-L. Who else would need to belong given the topic of the list?

Joan"

BINGO!

It isn't a question of need- it is a question of, to use a much used phrase in today's society, openness and transparency.

Why should one need to be a list owner in order to see, yes- and even participate in, the workings of the list in real time?

Perhaps if the list Admins were exposed to non-Admin input by regular users they would learn just exactly what the membership expects of list Admins- which just might lessen the "little tin god" syndrome that many of them suffer from.

AGHatchett3rd,

I think a prime example why not to have Listowners-L open to the public is this thread. I asked a simple question and you have to chime in and blow everything out of proportion. Imagine that happening on the list after every post. Get over it Sunshine.