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Hi IP team, In my role as liaison between the IP and Tech committees, I want to bring this issue to your attention. Due to change of editors and/or editor's accounts, some IP mailing lists appear to be abandoned by their "listowners". As this can happen for various reasons, I'm looking for input as to what policy we should establish for dealing with these cases. <snip context from original message on ccn-tech> I see from the list that you have a probable resolution for this particular user and his lists, but your question remains, what should we do in general when a list owner's account is changed/terminated. For an IP related list (the majority) the first place to look is the group list for the IP, to see who the new IPE1 is. - If the IP has also disappeared, then presumably the list should also be nuked. But we have at least one case that comes to mind where an IP site has moved to another host, but the mailing list is still active, so this is not a clear cut and dry. I don't know the "status" of that IP organization with us. - It becomes a policy issue whether we even consider allowing this situation to happen in the future. How we even know about this is unclear, since we don't have a formal process for "expiry" of IP agreements. - If the IP is active, but has a new editor(s) who are valid users, they should be approached to learn about list ownership and then take it on. But while we don't want a totally unprepared list-owner faced with a misbehaving list, (fortunately this is rare) we don't have any formal training (just the list-owners pages off goip) For non-ip lists, these should almost all be administrative lists, so the committee that is responsible should be asked to pick up the ball and appoint a list-owner, usually the committee chair. If we have non-administrative, non IP lists, then we should evaluate whether they ought to be brought under the IP infrastructure, in order to establish legal and economic accountability for the use of the resource. I will send a copy of this to the IP committee to see if they have any feedback. Ed Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Postmaster http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop Religion Page Editor, Chebucto Community Network http://www.chebucto.ns.ca
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