Re: [fsf-community-team] Reminder: put your introduction in the Wiki

[Holmes Wilson]

> I am one of the straglers. The first time I didn't add my information, I
> didn't want go go looking for my list password. Now that I tried it, I
> see that I am expected to create a separate "LibrePlanet" account.
>
> I was initially not able to create an account:
> I was recieving an invalid password error because my  login name
> exceeded 8 characters. (or maybe the text captcha was a dummy that
> flagged a moderator)

Yep, it has its own login system, and usernames have an 8 char limit.


> > Once they're all collected (or most of them) I'll let you know and we
> > can start adding comments and suggestions to each others' sample
> > responses.  Normally, people will be joining the list at a slower pace,
> > so this can happen piecemeal.  But since we're in this kind of
> > bootstrapping phase right now, it seems like dong things in a big batch
> > is the best way to go.
>
> Possibly off-topic, but is this list moderated?

Yep.  We'll be tightening up the moderation and creating a rotating 
moderator position soon.

> When I first signed up
> the archives were empty, so I assumed there was a better than 50% chance
> that initial posts were private. I included some cyber-stalking tips in
> my email that I have been debating about putting on my website. I guess
> the "cat is out of the bag" now. :/

The list will be moderated, but the archives will be public.   It's 
probably listed somewhere that the list is public.

> I have noticed I am not the only one who made such an assumption: I have
> seen two intro posts without the list pas5w0rd5 scrubbed. In both cases
> I sent the person in question an e-mail alerting them to that fact.

That's a problem.  The new message tells people to put their 
introduction in the wiki, but I'll add something that reminds people to 
scrub the list password.

> Me
> being able to do this seems to contradict the following statement:
> "This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members
>     is available only to the list administrator."
>   Linkname: fsf-community-team Info Page
>   URL: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-community-team

That just means you can't see the whole list of members.

> I suppose seeing the address of the sender is not exactly the same
> thing, but my initial impression was that all addresses would be translated to
> something like: address@hidden
>
> The reason I think the list is moderated is that during my initial
> (second) post, I suddenly recieved ~20 messages. In addition, I have
> seen several double posts were the sender said to the effect:
> "Did not see my initial message, so assuming filters got it."
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> James Phillips
>
> PS: I will be adding my name to the wiki shortly.
> PPS: used L33T-speak to avoid unwanted notice from search engine users
> using a common search term.
> PPps: I just realized the posts in question may come up anyway.