If your concern is in assessing whether or not a candidate is suitable to administer and moderate the list, then it can be a factor to take into account. I don't however agree that it should be a prerequesite. The software is trivially easy to learn to use. I had no prior experience, and I don't think I broke anything in the last two or so years of using it. What is far more important, as far as I am concerned, is having people able to judge how and when it is appropriate to intervene when threads occasionally get unruly.
Alex
2013/5/1 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
On 1 May 2013 19:48, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Considering the centrality of this list, let's add a criterion of "has managed a Mailman list before", shall we? It would be a huge waste of everyone's time if a complete novice were to push the wrong buttons. :)
It's actually pretty easy even if you've never seen it before, IME.
- d.