WG/OBIT/Mailing list cleanup - Steve

Boilerplate Request

(Sent to LIST@ and LIST-owner@)

Subject: Status of LIST mailing list?

Hello LIST,

We (OBIT) are in the process of doing some house keeping on our mailing lists. Specifically, we're trying to figure out which lists are still being used, and which can be retired (aka deleted).

Are people still using this list? If yes, then just say so, and we'll leave it as-is.

On the other hand, if this list is no longer used, then please let us know so that we can retire it. (Note: deleting the mailing list will also delete any archived messages, so please consider that when making your decision.)

Thanks in advance.

Boilerplate (re: Archives)

We (OBIT) don't have the bandwidth to do any special handling of list archives right now. Let's leave the list as-is for now. I'll make a note to circle back (re: preservation of list archives) when we're more caught up on things.

In Progress - Batch 2

rainbowraiders

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

resourcemap

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

restorativejustice

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

road_map_planning

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

s30

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

saferspaces

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

screenprint

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

space

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

spiritual

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.

stopsopa

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Message awaits moderator approval.

In Progress - Batch 1

obmedia

(media.occubos hosting order)

2/17/2013 Sent Boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval

a4national

2/17/2013 Sent Boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval

alec

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval.

bank

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval

citizensresolution

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval

consensus

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval

direct_dem

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval.

Finished

arts

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. Awaits moderator approval.
Cat Mead says list is still used. Keep.

bank-action

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/17/2013 List hasn't seen much traffic in a while. Linda wants to retain the archives. Others want to do future bank actions. Keep.

blog

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. This generates an autoresponder message:

Blog@lists.occupyboston.org is an internal list for Occupy Boston's Media working group. If you'd like to get in touch with us, please email us at OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com.

2/18/2013 Sent boilerplate to OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com
2/18/2013 Farhad: "This list was never used. Thanks!"
2/18/2013 disabled

breakboa

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/17/2013 Response from Ariel "I'm pretty sure this is not being used. Rarely ever was."
2/18/2013 Ariel was the original list owner. disabled

calendar

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
Media autoresponder message comes back.
2/17/2013 This mailing list receives form submissions from http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar-event-submission-form/. Sent boilerplate again, using the same "From" address that the calendar form would use.
2/17/2013 Greg Murphy: still in use.

casa-announce

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/19/2013 Monica: still used for a couple of announcements/month. Keep.
2/20/2013 Monica says they're using arts@lists.occupyboston.org, not casa-announce@lists.occupyboston.org. disabled

celly

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. Held for moderation.
2/18/2013 Eli: "the mailing list is no longer in use. Feel free to archive"
2/18/2013 disabled

citizensunited

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. Awaits moderator approval
2/18/2013 Still used, per Helini, Terra, and a bunch of others. Keep.

climate-action

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/17/2013 Nina Moliver says list is still being used. Keep.
2/18/2013 Kathryn, Aryt, and a bunch of others responded "still in use". Popular list.

community_forum

2/17/2013. Community forum is still pretty active. Keep it.

decolonize

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
2/17/2013 Greg Murphy: "still very much in use". Keep

direct-action-announce

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. Awaits moderator approval.
2/19/2013 cykros: low-volume, but still used for announcements. Keep

energy

2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate. Interesting. obit-support seems to be on the energy list.
2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval.
2/25/2013 Dana: "I think it should be retired and put to bed.". disabled

radio

2/24/2013 Radio is still active. Keep.

reinvestment

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Wes Nickerson: "There was once a working group called Community Reinvestment, that I started. The name was soon changed to Sustainable Economy, by the will of the group. So I believe that the list you are talking about is no longer used."
2/24/2013 Wrote to Wes, asking whether archives should be preserved.
2/24/2013 Wes: Not a problem. There were not a lot of messages sent in those early days. Disabled

research

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Bobby Wengronowitz: "Unless others on the list have any objections, I think we can delete it. Hasn't been used in a while."
2/25/2013 Bobby W.: I'd be in favor of keeping the list then, to keep the archives. I'm in favor of keeping all list archives. There was no doubt an awful lot of emails, but we're mostly talking about text that shouldn't use that much memory. I'd imagine other occupy groups may be going through similar processes (or have or will), and that dumping all the archives from all the different groups into one place would be useful for research purposes.
2/25/2013 Keep for now. circle back: archives

saa

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Jen Mazer: "SAA doing great-people still show up and plan things and we talk about them." Keep

social-enterprise

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 elise.moussa: list still in use. Requested new moderator password; I sent her a moderator password reset. Keep.

spokes

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Rene says the list is dead. Marty asks about saving archives. Replied to both, saying that deleting the list would also delete the archives.
2/24/2013 Further discussion with Greg Murphy and Rene, re: pros and cons of retaining mail archives.
2/25/2013 Robin Jacks: "I agree that the archives should/must be saved".
2/25/2013 Keep for now. Circle back: archives

street

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Kevin Maley: "I don't think this list is used anymore"
2/24/2013 Wrote back to Kevin, to see if there was a desire to keep the mail archives.
2/25/2013 Linda Jenkins: I'd like to keep this one, Steve, in light of the fact that retiring it means losing any messages and addresses archive associated with it.
2/25/2013 Keep for now. circle back: archives

strikedebt

2/24/2013 Strikedebt is still an active working group. Keep.

suburbs

2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
2/24/2013 Terra would like to hold onto this list. Keep.