A few points of clarification: He's not my president actually, he's the president of some chorus in the midwest, a guy I've never met and probably never will. The list involved isn't his chorus list but a list I've been running for members of any lgbt anywhere on the planet. As far as I know, the list has been around longer than his chorus.
In this instance, I've sent the prez an email explaining that all I can do is remove the original message from the archives and that if he as chorus president is upset that chorus members use the chorus name in any conversation or correspondence without his approval, that's an internal communication issue for his chorus, not my international email list.
As for acceptable list behavior, the original email was utterly innocuous and within the normal use of the mailing list. I suspect some sort of internal chorus politics in play. If the prez responds, perhaps we'll know more.
The one thing I definitely will not do is set up list moderation. If the list membership needs that kind of babysitting after all these years, the list will have outlived its usefulness and will require killing.
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Date: 2009-11-09 03:15 am (UTC)In this instance, I've sent the prez an email explaining that all I can do is remove the original message from the archives and that if he as chorus president is upset that chorus members use the chorus name in any conversation or correspondence without his approval, that's an internal communication issue for his chorus, not my international email list.
As for acceptable list behavior, the original email was utterly innocuous and within the normal use of the mailing list. I suspect some sort of internal chorus politics in play. If the prez responds, perhaps we'll know more.
The one thing I definitely will not do is set up list moderation. If the list membership needs that kind of babysitting after all these years, the list will have outlived its usefulness and will require killing.