"Nina Shishkoff" wrote in message
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Golly, Jim, who knew you did all that? Would it be possible to
split the duties among several people, or would that simply breed
chaos?

The one that jumps out at me is:

4. Another part of the management aspect is a readiness to
help
people with their bonsai questions. As I've seen it, the
manager
has the responsibility to ensure that all legitimate
questions
get answered.

We used to have an informal committee that did this; several
nice people agreed to make sure that newbie questions got
answered. And back in the dark ages, Hud Nordin used to handle
this offlist. It might be easy to reassemble a committee of
compassionate Bonsaija to handle this part of list management,
and being an "expert" on bonsai is not necessary. The most
important thing is to let a newbie know is that we're glad
they're here, and that someone will *eventually* answer a
question if it is phrased magically. It also helps to know who
likes certain topics better than others so that questions on
bonsai diseases can be forwarded to me, and questions on whether
Bonsai is Art can be forwarded to.... well, they know who they
are.

I'll stop now before I start to sniffle and sob at the thought
of Jim travelling and having fun.


Well, I've had fun doing this, too, but . . .

Anyway, I think the list manager needs to be one of that cadre;
t'would be nice if Hud would come back aboard. ;-) (I heard
from him not long ago and suggested it, but got no response.)

I'm not sure what happened to the "informal committee" (though
some of us still try to respond).

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman