Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Ugh! ... the announce list is NOT FOR JOB POSTINGS!!!
Because it's by nature supposed to be low-traffic, I'd _strongly_ suggest that the only way it can work is if the moderation flag gets set for everyone except a small set of people trusted to post only genuinely on-topic announcements. (Other people could still post, but their postings would be held for admin attention.)
Job announcements aren't suitable for the balug-announce list - keep 'em off there!
You're preaching to the choir, Michael.
The people who are a problem are the seven you refer to, who posted transparently inappropriate messages to balug-announce-balug.org -- not to mention the innumerable people who'll probably follow their example.
Have a look at the listinfo page for that mailing list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
Notice the lack of any indication about what is (and is not) appropriate, or even of what the list is for? Compare:
http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug-announce%5B1]
On the former (the "conspire") list, the explicit policy includes:
While we appreciate the need for jobs postings, they easily overwhelm this small mailing list: So, you must submit them via e-mail to the listadmin, who'll decide whether to post them. Reasons why the answer has been "no" in the past have included their having already been posted to other local LUG mailing lists. (We get tired of seeing the same posts everywhere.)
For balug-announce-balug.org, I would actually strongly recommend that the listinfo page say something like this:
This list has been created for announcements relating to the Bay Area Linux User's Group. Other announcements may be approved by the listadmins or not; we'll judge appropriateness. In particular, NO jobs-offered or sought postings will be approved.
Separately and in addition, I'd personally recommend that http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org/ -- which, again, currently has _nothing_ about what the list's for, get something like this:
This is a general discussion forum for the Bay Area Linux User Group.
Per list policy, our (subscriber-accessible) membership roster and public message archives display unobscured posting addresses. If you're trying to hide your e-mail address from spammers, avoid this list.
While we appreciate the need for jobs postings, they easily overwhelm this small mailing list, and we ask that you take them to any of the many jobs forums such as SVLUG Jobs (http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs) and BayLISA-Jobs (http://www.baylisa.org/services.shtml), instead.
I have administrative access to all three of BALUG's Mailman lists, and (physically) can implement in a flash whatever is agreed upon -- but (just to reassure people) would not do anything of the sort without a fairly high degree of consensus.