[discuss] List membership management

Sun May 11 19:43:06 UTC 2014

+1 Michele.  Delete button is your friend.
Stephanie P
On 2014-05-06, at 12:59 PM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:

> Nick
> 
> I suspect a lot of us don't have the time to check forums .. Checking an email list is much easier .. Nominet killed off their member mailing lists a few years ago - end result a lot of us stopped participating .. 
> 
> Though the signal to noise ratio on this list can be a bit tiresome :)
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> Regards
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> Michele
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 2:19 PM
> To: Andrew Sullivan
> Cc: discuss at 1net.org
> Subject: Re: [discuss] List membership management
> 
> I disagree. We could all transition over to the forums, and would do, were this list to be closed at some defined date - or become announce-only. 
> 
> Which, at this point, would be an improvement IMHO.
> 
> On 6 May 2014, at 15:00, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:00:59AM -0400, joseph alhadeff wrote:
>> 
>>> The problem appears to really be that there is no list organizer 
>>> willing or able to make a clarifying and transparent set of rules.
>> 
>> That isn't exactly fair.  To their credit, the list organizers decided 
>> back in the deepest winter (where I was, anyway) that a mailing list 
>> wouldn't work, and tried to move the whole thing to a web forum.  I 
>> hate web forums, so I didn't participate there & more or less stopped 
>> paying attention.  Then I got a note from someone asking that I 
>> re-engage on list.  So I did.  I think the steering committee decided 
>> that moderating a mailing list was beyond their ability to commit (I 
>> don't blame them -- I wouldn't moderate this list either), so here we 
>> are.  We have to self-moderate and put up with knaves and fools.  I 
>> find that procmail or sieve helps.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> A
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