On 15 Jun 2001, at 22:21, Carl D Cravens wrote: > My sig's always said "list owner". It's others on the list who have > called me "moderator". The politically correct term is "group," not "list." "Members," not "users." I haven't quite figured out what to replace "owner" with, other than "moderator." English lacks a short, nontechnical term for "person who is in charge of doing all the behind-the-scenes work" I'd use "host," but that already has a technical meaning. The community-building book we've been working with has several roles that the moderator/owner/whatever fulfills in varying capacity in various groups. Tech Support Providers (which can always get kicked upstairs), Hosts (keeping the conversation running smoothly), Greeters (welcoming newbies... this is NOT exclusively a listowner function, ditto Tech Support), and Cops (when Host-ing fails). Actually, on further reading, listowners are most often Founding Members. Or Elders. I suppose this wouldn't be a bad time to point everyone to the experimental (and, so far, very quiet) discussion of Phoenyx administrivia like this, at http://www.wirebird.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl Under Phoenyx Web Design, the Theming The Web discussion would include the naming consideration... if we re-themed the Phoenyx as (to pick a potentially silly example) a TV network, I suppose listowners would be... well, they'd be talk show Hosts. Never mind. You get the idea. But I'd rather a more genre-generic term, since theme/metaphors are sometimes not very extensible. -- Karen J. Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
