B-Greek on SunSITE

Marotta, Dave djm5g at virginia.edu
Mon Jun 8 13:45:19 EDT 1998


Thanks Jonathan!

I am heading on vacation this Thursday for a week and a half.  You can
proceed as you see fit.

Thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jonathan Robie [SMTP:jwrobie at mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 03, 1998 9:00 PM
> To:	Biblical Greek
> Subject:	B-Greek on SunSITE
> 
> I have set up the B-Greek list on SunSITE using Lyris as the list
> server 
> software. Somehow, I felt a lot of sadness in doing this, since David
> has 
> given us such a wonderful list and maintained it well over the years,
> part 
> of me hates to step into his shoes, and I hope I can do so without
> messing 
> up everything he has accomplished.
> 
> This is the first message on the list - if you receive it, then
> something 
> is going right. I also subscribed all of the previous B-Greek staff to
> the 
> list and gave you all administrative priveleges for the time being -
> that 
> means you can all delete any message that is posted. I'll probably
> limit 
> this to a smaller group when we actually go live.
> 
> I would like us to all play with the software and decide what works
> well 
> and what should be changed.
> 
> You can access these messages via the web. Go to 
> http://franklin.oit.unc.edu and choose "sunsite hosted" and
> "biblical". 
> Full text search is available through this interface.
> 
> In theory, you should also be able to access them via a newsreader at
> news://franklin.oit.unc.edu/bgreek. It doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> People can subscribe either through the web interface or by sending
> email 
> to bgreek-join at franklin.oit.unc.
> 
> I have set it up so that anybody who is not on staff will have to have
> 
> their first 2 messages approved by a staff member before they can just
> post 
> normally. This should prevent spam from being posted, and also prevent
> 
> messages by the totally clueless who haven't even bothered to figure
> out 
> what the list is about before they start posting. However, this means
> we 
> have to make sure that someone is available to approve new posts by 
> checking in twice a day or so. Can we trade off on this?
> 
> I also set it up so that every message tells you how to unsubscribe
> and 
> lists the email address under which you are subscribed. Hopefully,
> this 
> should reduce the number of "unsubscribe" messages.
> 
> When I set this up, I noticed two unfamiliar email addresses among the
> 
> staff. Who are these people:
> 
> nop02875 at mail.telepac.pt
> swainl at rocky.edu
> 
> Please let me know whether you are interested in continuing on staff.
> I 
> intend to discuss most major decisions with the staff, and will be
> looking 
> for ways to improve the list. For instance, should we be considering
> other 
> ways to help beginners? Carl has been taking to tutoring people
> offline to 
> keep them from clogging up the list. Could we find a few staff members
> who 
> have time to tutor one or two people to help them get to the point
> that 
> they can contribute intelligently to the list? What other things
> should we 
> consider? How can we make sure that B-Greek continues to be welcoming,
> but 
> remains interesting to the scholars, who provide the real content and
> keep 
> it interesting?
> 
> I'd like to discuss these issues for a few days - partially as a way
> of 
> testing the new software. After that, I'll set up the bg-staff account
> here 
> and move the messages over (assuming there's a way to move them!).
> 
> Welcome to SunSITE!
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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