[UCIMC-Tech] [IMC] Request to Subscribe to the IMC List

[Mike Lehman]

Since people know her, I see no issue with granting the subscription 
request. She'll be able to let us know what at the IMC is of interest. I 
just wanted to check if it was a random request and it's not.

Another way to deal with this is that when people discuss joining email 
lists, etc at the IMC  with interested parties,, it might be good to 
take their address and themselves request that person be added to the 
respective list. Not intended as a formality, but having a new person be 
"sponsored" by someone who knows their way around a working group or 
list could be useful for keeping new members in touch.

And avoiding confusion for we sometimes hapless admins!
:-)
Mike Lehman

On 6/15/2011 11:45 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> I might know this person but not through the IMC. maybe they're not
> sure which.list to join? recalling that the IMC list is supposed to be
> for group spokes, imc-members for all members and a third list for non
> members interested in announcements&  events, I'd say this is a
> misdirected request for imc-events.
>
> On 6/15/11, Mike Lehman<rebelmike at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>> I received a subscription request to the IMC list from this person:
>> /Amani
>> amayad90 at yahoo.com
>>
>> Does anyone know this person in order to validate their request?
>> Mike
>>
>> PS I've long administered the IMC list, among others (anyone want some
>> lists to admin :-) ?), but neither I nor anyone else in the IMC can
>> really keep up with who's who and who's new. I wonder if it would be
>> possible to add a comment box to the mail program subscription request
>> so that a new person can add a comment about why they are asking to
>> subscribe?
>>
>> Obviously, this is only necessary for those lists where sub requests
>> must be approved, like the IMC and IMC-Finance lists, but could be a
>> useful tool if applied across the lists even where it could be an
>> optional field. Not sure if Mailman supports this or not, but maybe Tech
>> knows?/
>> //
>>
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