[volunteers] Just for a time, as I said

[Rick Moen]

On Nov. 14, I said:

> Your ability to post will be restricted for a time, and, if I fail to
> notice that one of your postings isn't rubbish and expires out of the
> Mailman admin queue before Mark Weisler or I approve it manually, I'm
> not even going to feel sorry.

OK, Mark (Bilk) and John (Regan), above refers tos a temporary
'moderated' flag that was set on your subscriptions to
svlug at lists.svlug.org .  That flag is now gone.  (I actually removed it
from John's a week or so ago, and meant to do both of them and get back
to you.  Sorry about that; I've been busy.)

What was enforced in your cases was the 'major eruptions of offtopic
spew' rule, on http://www.svlug.org/policies/list-policy.php, which is
linked from all listinfo pages, e.g., the main mailing list's at
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug .  Now, you guys obviously
disagree with me about what's offtopic.  If you feel like complaining to
the core volunteers about my actions or those of any other listadmin, 
_this_ mailing list (volunteers at lists.svlug.org) is always available to
reach the core volunteers, is completely open to _any_ non-spam posting,
and is publicly archived.  Likewise, any time *I* carry out an action as
listadmin, I cc this mailing list, so there's a public record.  All
enforcement and policy discussion is public; no exceptions.[1]

So, if you two have a problem with being reined in on using
svlug at lists.svlug.org to lecture the membership about political issues, 
go right ahead and bitch about it.  You're welcome to try to convince
folks, but, e.g., I'm pretty sure Yudhvir, Lisa Corsetti, Margaret
Wendall, Paul Cubbage, and Marc Merlin at minimum are grateful that I
stepped in, because they said so already.

And I will continue to step in any time there are major eruptions of
off-topic spew on http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug .  That
having been said, please do resume posting on that mailing list, as you
are every bit as welcome as any other SVLUG member.

[1] Control freaks and backroom dealings leave a bad taste in my mouth:
There was far too much of both in SVLUG history, so we banished them.