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Re: Mailing list centralization (Re: comments on WG rechartering procedures)



--On 10. september 2003 10:57 -0400 Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> wrote:

and Barbara is wondering whether we have properly considered the
cost to the secretariat of running the mailing lists, and whether we
should have a slightly higher bar for creating them.


Fair enough. Perhaps  we could get a list of all the ietf hosted
mailing lists, remove those that are WG lists and see what remains?
That would allow us to see if/how big the problem is and if some sort
of house cleaning is appropriate (I'm sure we've never done any...)

Partial list (mailman only) at <https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/>

I'd be _very_ surprised if we were to find that non-WG lists were
contributing significantly to overall mail load at ietf.org.

My personal guess for the admin overhead is 15 min setup time, 5 min/month of admin time (changing moderators and so on), and some unknown additional load because there are more people who yell at you when things tank for unknown reasons. I could easily be 200% off.

Of course, if the secretariat were to do spam cleaning on a list, like they do for iesg@ietf.org (with some help from some of us), the per-month time goes up *considerably*.

Harald