If an admin is going to be "out of service" for more than a day, they need to take on a co-admin to manage the list. Or come here to this list and ask someone to admin temporarily while they're gone. If they're chronically too busy to come online and check their email every day, they need to give up their list(s) because they're just not "listadmin material." IMO, of course. Diana > From: David Reed > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:20 AM > > That's unfortunate. Of course, you never know what's going on in > someone's life, and some Admins are responsive in a way that others > can't be, simply due to their own life circumstances (ie, a retired > person who does genealogy all day, vs. someone with a family at > home, a FT job, etc, and is active, but, not in front of a computer > -every- day.) > > I know I struggle to have an appropriate "life-balance", all the way > around! > > -David Reed

Personally, I think it varies greatly depending on the list. Some lists may need attention every day (but those seem to be far and few between these days, since the lists in general are so much slower than they used to be...), but so many others only need to be checked now and then. I think a great way to do it is to have a partner, and one admin co-admins for the other, and the other co-admins for them, so, as long as you aren't both away on vacation the same week, it seems to work out great. I'm lucky to have a great list partner! :-) -David Reed List Administrator: MAINE, NEW-ENG-GEN, MELINCOL (Maine, Lincoln County), ME-IRISH, CEMETERIES-HISTORIC-PRESERVATION, MARIN --------------------------------------------- "Actually, there is only one 'first question' of government, and it is "How should we live?" or "What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?" - George F. Will (1941-), American political commentator  Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Diana Gale Matthiesen Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:39 PM To: Listowners-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] ADMIN NOTE: If an admin is going to be "out of service" for more than a day, they need to take on a co-admin to manage the list. Or come here to this list and ask someone to admin temporarily while they're gone. If they're chronically too busy to come online and check their email every day, they need to give up their list(s) because they're just not "listadmin material." IMO, of course. Diana > From: David Reed > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:20 AM > > That's unfortunate. Of course, you never know what's going on in > someone's life, and some Admins are responsive in a way that others > can't be, simply due to their own life circumstances (ie, a retired > person who does genealogy all day, vs. someone with a family at home, > a FT job, etc, and is active, but, not in front of a computer > -every- day.) > > I know I struggle to have an appropriate "life-balance", all the way > around! > > -David Reed ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Well, maybe a day is not reasonable... anybody can get sick with a bad cold, have computer problems, or have something that would interfere with being able to check mail for a day of two. However, if an admin doesn't answer a question for a Lister in a week or two then the listmaster should consider contacting them to see if anything is wrong or if they are AWOL. J. Asche On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> wrote: > If an admin is going to be "out of service" for more than a day, they need to take on a co-admin to manage the list. Or come here to this list and ask someone to admin temporarily while they're gone. If they're chronically too busy to come online and check their email every day, they need to give up their list(s) because they're just not "listadmin material." > > IMO, of course. > > Diana > >