Change of Group Ownership

[Guest guest]

Attilio and Everyone

 

Attilio, thank you for this very detailed list.

 

Everyone, I would just like to modify the

suggestion I made on-list yesterday to have a

joint effort in owning and moderating the list.

 

In yesterday's post I suggested each person in

the team deal with *all* tasks on certain days of

each week.

 

Your list makes it clear to me that certain

tasks, because of their ongoing and complex

nature, must be done exclusively by one

individual. Other tasks can easily be rotated

around the team on a daily basis. I would

therefore suggest a division of labour like

this:-

 

Person 1 (List owner):

(a) Ultimate responsibility for all policies for

the group.

(b) Answering off list topics which include;

general complaints, request to post seminars,

conferences, new books, etc. Ie everything that

falls outside the specific remits of people 2-4

below.

© One day per week: 'moderating' (as defined

below).

 

Person 2 (Group Development):

(a) Initiating topics of discussion.

(b) Inviting new members to the group.

© Two days per week: 'moderating' (as defined

below).

 

Person 3 (Current Membership):

(a) Processing change of email address.

(b) Email delivery problems.

© Maintaining bouncing member accounts.

(d) Sending out reactivation requests and if not

actioned within a certain count, removing them

from the list.

(e) Two days per week: 'moderating' (as defined

below).

 

Person 4 (New Membership):

(a) Either accept or decline new membership

requests.

(b) Sometimes asking pending membership requests

further details about their qualifications.

© Two days per week: 'moderating' (as defined

below).

 

Definition of 'moderating':

(a) Checking every message to make sure the

group's rules are adhered to.

(b) Rejecting messages and explaining why they

are being bounced back to members. Then end up

having an ongoing off-list discussion as to why

it was wrong.

© Checking web links in messages point to

information sites only and not commercial.

(d) Checking new files, polls, pics, etc fall

within the group's rules.

 

 

The above is of course just a suggestion.

 

I am mega-unsure how a works

technically (ie how could different people access

the different data streams and ensure that

everything gets done by one person and one person

alone). That might *drastically* the above

scheme.

 

David Gordon

 

 

Attilio wrote:-

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Ok, list of what being the owner entails:

 

1. checking every message to make sure the

group's rules are adhered to

2. initiating topics of discussion.

3. rejecting messages and explaining why they are

being bounced back to

members. Then end up having a ongoing off list

discussion as to why it was

wrong.

4. checking web links in messages point to

information sites only and not

commercial.

5. checking new files, polls, pics, etc fall

within the group's rules.

6. maintaining bouncing member accounts. Sending

out reactivation requests

and if not actioned within a certain count,

removing them from the list.

7. inviting new members to the group.

8. either accept or decline new membership

requests.

9. sometimes asking pending membership requests

further details about their

qualifications.

10. answering off list topics which include;

general complaints, change of

email address, email delivery problems, request

to post seminars,

conferences, new books, etc. So yes, quite a few

off list tasks.

 

I think that's about everything.

 

Kind regards

 

Attilio D'Alberto

[Guest guest]

Dear Attilio,

 

I understand your pressure about this group. I would like to help you if

you need us. Dr & HERBs do have some resource to promote this group. We believe

this group is well done over last two years.

 

I suggest it may , sometimes, we need to have a group conference for this

active group and our company can help this conference in the UK or USA.

 

John Wu

 

Dr & HERBS