[Rhodes22-list] Posting files - possibilities

[Robert Skinner]

Thank you, John, for giving this some thought.
In the spirit of this group's bar room round
table discussions, I have interspersed my
responses among your statements.

John Lock wrote:
> Robert Skinner wrote:
> >As the list is transitioned...
> >is it possible that a file sharing facility
> >be included
 
> Couple things to remember -
> 1) I'm not Yahoo ;-) 

This is a good thing.

> If you want all the features (and resources) of
> a Yahoo group, start one.

I would not contemplate for a minute, 
and certainly not publicly suggest, 
any action that would fragment this 
harmonious and cohesive group, 
especially in consideration of its 
concentrated and collective persuit of 
its well-defined, narrowly focussed, 
and commonly agreed-upon goals.

> I will not be able to duplicate those
> services on a pro-bono website.

I wasn't talking about any capability 
except file sharing.

> 2) Disk space is cheap, but not unlimited.  It is still wise to
> manage that resource.

Of course.  More about that later.

> 3) Bandwidth is not a concern right now.  We are not metered.

Good.

> With all that said... yes, I think we will plan to have a document
> library where files of value to the group can be stored for easy
> retrieval.  However, I am certain it will be moderated, so that it
> stays somewhat organized and doesn't become a dumping ground.

In a prior incarnation, I managed a 
company's IT resources, and had similar 
concerns about the polution of common 
file space.  I set up a couple of 
directories for shared files:

TRANSITORY - anyone could add a file 
for common access, but it was 
automatically deleted at the end of 7 
days.  Here, we might allow 3-5 weeks 
so someone on vacation would have a 
chance to download it before it staled 
out.

ARCHIVAL - Rather than John (or back-up 
administrator) having to moderate the 
addition of each file, any list member 
could request that a file in the 
transitory directory be promoted to the 
Archives.  Soch a request would occur 
some reasonable time before the file is 
to be autodeleted, and include the file 
name and descriptive text to accompany 
it into the Archive.

Hope this tickles the little gray cells,
-- 
Robert