volunteers wanted for list help :)

[Gooijen, Henk]

> I'd like to solicit volunteers to help with gating posts from 
> cctalk to cctech. Ideally, people in a drastically different
> time zone than central US :)

What would you consider drastically?
I am in The Netherlands you knew that ;-) and with NY the time
difference is 6 hours, with LA is 9 hours ...

> Gating posts takes about 5-15 minutes per day, all depends on 
> how many people are doing it. You basically log in to a website
> for cctech and click on "accept" if the post is 100% on-topic,
> or reject if it's not. You then log in to a website for cctalk
> and click "accept" if it's ok (non-list member post) or "reject"
> if its one of the few spam that makes it by the filters.

Ok, a few questions.
When is a post on-topic? Is it just the "10-year" rule, or ...?
Do you have some minimalist guide lines?

> When this is done consistently, the list runs smooth and it's 
> very quick & easy to do. When it's not run consistently, it can
> become a royal pain and consume a lot of time.

I can not promise that I can do this every evening (or at work
over the day perhaps a few times), but I am indeed most of my
evenings at home, seldom on holiday, etc.

> I - and the people on cctech, would greatly appreciate it if 
> a reliable individual with 5 to 15 minutes per day to spare can
> help out!

I can do that, *if*
- nobody gets angry when I move a post to the wrong list
  (misunderstood contents, "guideline" interpreted different)
- I am allowed to miss out 2 or 3 times per month (not expecting
  that, but you never know what can happen)
- get clear instructions what I must do, how, etc.

- Henk, PA8PDP
  The Netherlands