[BBC] volunteers asked to take over the maintenance of the list !

[BEN]

	Dear readers of the BBClist,

I guess I do not have to tell you about the usefulness of the BBC 
mailing list, from which you receive each week a few messages. This list 
(first Belgian, later Benelux) has since its begin been managed by the 
now defunct Belgian EMBnet Node. I have untill now continued to do the 
management on a voluntary basis but it is not reasonable that I should 
keep doing this forever. Therefore we are searching a volunteer to take 
over the list, preferably a person or a group with a stable position in 
the field of bioinformatics and involved in collaborations within one or 
more countries of the Benelux.

You can choose between two options :
Either you install the list on a MailMan or MajorDomo server of you own
OR
The list stays on the MailMan server of the BBPF, which can without 
problem continue to host our list for several years to come, and you 
only take the responsability to do the administrative management.

As manager you must do 3 things :
1. The list is currently configured in such a way that mails coming from 
adresses in the list are stored for moderation and mails coming from 
other adresses are automatically discarded. If there are mails in the 
queue the server sends overnight a warning to the manager. So, the first 
moment of the day that I check my mail I attend the moderation of the 
list. I have only once seen a spam, but I have several times seen the 
same mail send twice (and then I forward only one copy). You could of 
course decide to change the way you want to handle the list.
2. You must each year obtain from the organizers of the BBC the adresses 
of the participants and add them to the list.
3. Although the readers of the list can manage themselves their 
(un)subscription there are occasionally punctual interventions 
(add/change/remove addresses) to do for the sake of persons who have 
forgotten their password or otherwise need assistance, but this happens 
no more than about a dozen times a year.

So, you see, it is really not much work. If you are interested, answer 
by returning mail (do not forget to present yourself and tell which of 
the two options you go for).

	Happy 2010 !
	Guy Bottu

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