Gary Klass <[log in to unmask]> says:
>I've been trying to get our computer people to setup a shared account so
>that three people on different campuses can moderator a listproc 6c list.
>Unfourtunately there is a policy against this.  I'm told that no
>university permits this sort of thing.   I've done it on another
>site (with Listserv) and it works very well.
 
There are two separate questions here:
 
1a. Do universities permit shared accounts?
               or possibly what you really mean is:
1b. Do universities permit multiple list-owners, possibly from different
    places, including non-local owners?
2.  How does one have multiple moderators on one list?
 
(2) is easier to answer.  Certainly Listserv lets you have multiple
Editors (and I believe with 1.8b one can have multiple "Moderator="
keywords that automatically loadshares amongst the moderators.)  So it
isn't clear why you needed to do it with Listserv on your other
site.  Since lstown-l is geared towards Listserv-based list, this is
perhaps not the best place to ask whether Listproc lets you have
multiple moderators (load-shared or otherwise), though some people may
well know.  I'd be very surprised if it didn't, though, since this seems
like such a basic capability.
 
(1a) Multiple users of same account.
>If someone knows of university sites that permit this, please send my a
>note I could use in my efforts.
 
MIT used to, for legitimate student groups and the like, but has an
official policy against this for a few years now (there has to be
exactly ONE real person who owns the account).  So no, this policy
doesn't surprise me (and is actually quite reasonable given increased
computer security violations, etc.).
 
(1b) Of course, having multiple list-moderators is a very natural setup.
MIT requires that the principal list-owner (not moderator) be an MIT
person (student, staff, faculty) who is responsible for and sponsors the
list, but does not restrict who the other list owners, or the
moderators, can be. But the non-MIT list owners only have list access
control--they do not have "accounts" in any sense of the word.
 
Shahrukh Merchant
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