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Subject: Re: Support of old config methods, list-owners
From: Leslie Mikesell <les @ Mcs . Net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:38:55 -0500 (CDT)
To: rayjones @ praline . no . neosoft . com (Ray Jones)
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970603164344.23902B-100000@praline.no.neosoft.com> from "Ray Jones" at Jun 3, 97 04:50:41 pm

> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Bill Silvert wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that list-owners are selected for their involvement with
> > the subject, not necessarily for their mastery of computers. My greatest
> > concern about MD is that list administration is really too complicated
> > for most of the people who I think should be doing the job, so I end up
> > managing almost all our lsits myself.
> 
> What do you find so hard about md list administration? Though I've been
> into computers and electronic communications for around 17 years, I've
> never thought of myself as being a tech. I don't see anything hard about
> the list administration itself. I might not be able to set up majordomo
> itself, but I have no problem administering the list itself and don't see
> why anyone with a modicum of common sense would either.

Have you actually succeeded in teaching a group of people who are
experts in their own non-computer fields how to operate a list?
Or kept them happy by doing everything they wanted for them?

> It certainly seems simple enough to me.

Suiting yourself is easy...

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com


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