Dear Prashant/ Harish, This is a tricky issue. My considered view is that it would be too premature to put conditions of references/ invitations to join the list. There are several people on the list who just want to be updated on the new development in the VI Sector, family members, friends, relatives, journalists, students, govt. officials, and the list is too wide.
Email verifications and brief information about the person joining the list would serve the purpose of the list. The moderator may consider having more personal information, if required, about each member admitted to the list. Idea is not to restrict the members on the list but to promote and enourage healthy and constructive discussions and information sharing on the subjects that affect the VI and allowed under the list guidelines. This being a public forum, the archive of the mails/discussions is available thorugh search engines. Therefore, conduct of the person on the list over a period of time should be the deciding criteria and Moderator should be the best judge on this. Any content that is abusive or comes with in the restricted parameters can also be removed from the archive and thread closed for traffic and the person /email id can be banned from the list after due diligence. regards Subhash Chandra Vashishth Advocate On 24 April 2013 17:51, Prashant Ranjan Verma <pr_ve...@hotmail.com> wrote: > There is a limit to the maximum number of members a discussion list like AI > can serve. So, should new members be approved only on referrals or > invitation? > And is it also time to set up a mechanism to verify the identity of > members? > It is reported that there are few people with multiple and fake IDs here. > > I think members and the moderator should reflect on these questions. > > Prashant > > > The BEST Way to Read and Publish: http://www.daisy.org/get-involved > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
