Guidelines for Mailinglist Moderators

Here a partial list of what you should do:

• Throw away spam message.
• Throw away viruses.
• Throw away offensive messages that have nothing to do with the list.
• Don't approve majordomo commands sent to the wrong address. Instead, inform the sender about the error.
• In general you should not accept attachments. Ask the sender to convert attachments to ascii text (in the case of word documents or PDF files) or to include a URL to images the sender wants to post). Images and Documents use up a large amount of space in the archive. If the sender has no way of hosting an image somewhere propose to have it hosted on the swiss-list web site for a limited amount of time.
• All job offers should be forwarded to pr@swiss-list.com and only be posted if our PR person approves (Hansjürg is our current PR person).
• Don't accept full resumes unless explicitly told so by the sender after asking if he/she knows that the resume will end up in the archives and be available for ever. If you accept a resume make sure its in ascii only.
• Make sure that all 'for sale' emails are sent to the correct email list. In particular no 'for sale' messages to the swiss-list if there is a local email list. The only exception are 'for rent' messages, as they may interest a larger circle.
• Don't accept commercial 'for sale' messages
• Editing messages: you can reformat messages that have been garbled, or remove signatures of emails that have been cited. However, don't change the text of the message.
• If in doubt, send the message to the Committee list.