Re: [tlug] list admin job description (was: Top-posting)

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Tue, 29 May 2012 19:33:35 +0200
Bruno Raoult <braoult@example.com> wrote:

> Please, Attila, can you explain where "political" is important here? Maybe
> you meant "diplomatic" instead? I mean to avoid useless discussions such
> as this one :-) My main message is not top-posted :-)

Diplomacy is telling people to go to hell and getting them to thank
you for that. While politics is about to upset everyone equally.

As listadmin you have to have a feeling what the current mood on the
mailinglists is, what people want and how much abuse they can stand.
You try to talk to some who seem like good indicators of the situation
and others who seem to have a big influence on others, with the goal
of understanding what's going on and being able to calm things if
necessary. At times you wield Thors hammer to scare everyone until
they behave as you think is best for the mailinglist.

			Attila Kinali

-- 
The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything until you've saved
up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments and then you dump
them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap
		-- Tirin, The Dispossessed, U. Le Guin