WG/OBIT/Mailing list cleanup - Steve

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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 publicly archived [1] and 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 archive and delete it.

Thanks in advance.

[1] The archive location is http://archive.occupyboston.org/mailing-lists/

In Progress - Batch 2

road_map_planning

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved my subscription request.
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate

In Progress - Batch 1

a4national

  • 2/17/2013 Sent Boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/13/2013 Reset admin password. Approved subscription.
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate. Last significant traffic was April 2012.
  • 4/14/2013 Had a nice conversation with Alberta from Oakland, re: mailing lists that discuss transit issues.

bank

  • 2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/13/2013 Reset admin password. Approved subscription. No messages since Feb 2012
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate

citizensresolution

  • 2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. No messages since March 2013
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate

consensus

  • 2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved subscription request. No messages since July 2012
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 4/13/2013 Greg Murphy: "I have not seen this list used in a very long time."
  • 4/13/2013 Terra: "no idea what this list is even for. is it part of facilitation?"
  • 4/13/2013 Greg Murphy: "no, though a buncha FWG folks gravitated to the mtgs . . . it was a study group attempt to understand consensus . . . the thinking being that if an understanding could be developed, maybe OB could actually start using consensus . . ."


To Delete

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
  • 4/11/2013 submitted subscription request (to preserve whatever archives there were); pending moderator approval

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
  • 4/11/2013 Sent subscription request (to preserve whatever archives there were); awaiting moderator approval

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
  • 4/14/2013 Attempted to subscribe, so that I can preserve whatever message archives there were.

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
  • 4/11/2013 Wrote to list, asking if archive and delete was okay
  • 4/11/2013 Kevin Maley: "I think its ok. Any objections?"
  • 4/13/2013 Rene: "It's dead"
  • 4/20/2013 archived and deleted

Done

alec

  • 2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset admin password. Approved subscription.
  • 4/13/2013 No members, and no archived messages
  • 4/13/2013 Preserved (empty) archive. deleted

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
  • 4/11/2013 deleted

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. Keep

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
  • 4/11/2013 Sent subscription request; awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/11/2013 Monica: "Yes, definitely, go ahead and delete." Monica tells me the list was never used, so there are no archives to preserve.
  • 4/11/2013 List deleted

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.

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

direct_dem

  • 2/17/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved subscription request. Some subscribers. No archived messages.
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 4/13/2013 Joan: "Don't care about the list (not one of mine)"
  • 4/13/2013 Kendra: "I don't even remember signing up for this list. I think it is safe to assume that it is inactive, I never get anything from it."
  • 4/13/2013 Terra: "i'm here. but don't use it. how many people are on it?"
  • 4/13/2013 Siobhan Baron: "We are no longer using this list."
  • 4/14/2013 srevilak: will remove in a few days if no one objects in the interim.
  • 4/20/2013 Archived and deleted

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
  • 4/10/2013 Archived and deleted

obmedia

(media.occubos hosting order)

  • 2/17/2013 Sent Boilerplate
  • 2/24/2013 Attempted to subscribe to list. Awaiting moderator approval
  • 4/11/2013 Reset list admin password. There are no members, and no archives.
  • 4/11/2013 List deleted

radio

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

rainbowraiders

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved my subscription request.
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 4/13/2013 Brandon: "I guess I was the admin on this list. I haven't seen any traffic on it in months, so I think you are ok to remove it"
  • 4/20/2013 No messages in list archives
  • 4/20/2013 Preserved (empty) archive and deleted

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
  • 4/11/2013 Sent subscription request; approved. Sent follow-up question to research list
  • 4/20/2013 Archived and deleted

resourcemap

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. No archives and no subscribers.
  • 4/13/2013 Preserved (empty) archive. deleted

restorativejustice

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved my subscription request.
  • 4/13/2013 No list members and no archives.
  • 4/13/2013 Preserved (empty) archive. deleted

s30

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/1/2013 Dana: To my knowledge, the S30 list hasn't been used since S30, and should be retired. Disabled.
  • 4/10/2013 Archived and deleted

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

saferspaces

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Subscribe succeeded.
  • 3/31/2013 Sent boilerplate to list
  • 4/6/2013 Rene: "This list hasn't been used a very long time"
  • 4/10/2013 Archived and deleted.

screenprint

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Subscribe succeeded.
  • 3/31/2013 Sent boilerplate to list.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. oops. I'm not a list admin
  • 4/13/2013 There are only 4 archived messages, and two of them are mine.
  • 4/13/2013 Preserved archives. deleted

space

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Awaiting moderator approval.
  • 4/13/2013 Reset list admin password. Approved my subscription request.
  • 4/13/2013 Sent boilerplate
  • 4/13/2013 Rene: "This one's dead too. Thanks, Steve"
  • 4/13/2013 Sage: "Nope, it's not being used."
  • 4/14/2013 Paul Johnson: "We would still like to use this list. Please do archive it. We would like to use it as is."
  • 4/14/2013 Leave as-is, due to conflicting responses. 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
  • 4/11/2013 Sent subscription request. Succeeded
  • 4/11/2013 Wrote to spokes, asking if archive + delete was still okay
  • 4/12/2013 Rene: "+1 thanks, steve."
  • 4/12/2013 Bobby Wengronow: "+1 here too."
  • 4/12/2013 Archived and deleted

spiritual

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Subscribe succeeded.
  • 3/31/2013 Sent boilerplate to list.
  • 3/31/2013 Laura Steinman: "I feel it is used sometimes but I also feel FB is a good way to connect"
  • 4/1/2013 Nina Moliver: "Steve, I'm not using the list. - Nina"
  • 4/2/2013 Eden: "I have sent events on this list and I don't facebook. I'd prefer the fb events get posted here too. ... don't keep this list just for me."
  • 4/2/2013 Given the mix of responses, let's leave as-is. 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.

stopsopa

  • 2/24/2013 Sent boilerplate.
  • 2/24/2013 Message awaits moderator approval.
  • 3/31/2013 Attempted to subscribe. Subscribe succeeded.
  • 3/31/2013 Sent boilerplate to list.
  • 3/31/2013 Eli: "Nope. Good to archive"
  • 4/10/2013 list archived and deleted

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.
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