[Foundation-l] New list admin: Ral315

[Anthony]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2) However, what kind of mail would you have liked? You said that you
>> didn't want a boilerplate email, okay. But how do you write "personal
>> emails" to the ca. 10 applicants who we did not choose? Either you
>> keep it very short and simple ("Hi, this is to inform you that you
>> were considered but that we found Ral315 to be the most qualified
>> candidate after all"), which would be a form of a boilerplate again.
>> Otherwise, you'll have to outline for every candidate the exact
>> reasons why the successful candidate was "better" (read: more
>> qualified) than him and it's a) difficult to formulate this without
>> being impolite and b) it takes a lot of time.
>
>
> An explanation of why only one person could be accepted would be helpful,
> since you seem to be implying that this is the case.
>

Along these lines, does the mail software support giving someone permission
to approve messages only (not to change moderation status)?  Seems that
pretty much anyone who can be trusted to send unmoderated posts can be
trusted to do this.