[H-GEN] Membership form

[Russell Stuart]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:31 +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> Also of interest: this page has the sysadmin@ alias listed. So much
> for the uber-secret cabal list. Given away on the club homepage no less!

It appears it was added by Matt (our librarian) on 2009-06-03.  Maybe
that was a portent of what the librarian role would morph into.  I hope
so.  He did it after a kerfuffle created by me here about private lists
- a gesture which I appreciate.

It was also given away at the talk I did recently at Humbug, which was
later put up for public download.  I described how the Humbug servers
were originally owned by private individuals (your name was mentioned!),
and how managing them the way they are (hidden private lists and so on)
was a perfectly reasonable thing to do in the circumstances.  Probably
how I would have done it, in fact, if I owned the machines.

But things have moved on, the way do we things has changed.  So it is
now reasonable to put the sysadmin alias on the front page.  To the
current Exec's credit, this is exactly what the current they did when it
was pointed out.  Obviously I want to take it further by making a clean
break with the past arrangement.  I think changing the way the lists
work, and formalising the SysAdmin role are good symbolic ways of making
this break clear.