On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:00 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > Ah, I see. Then we have a free software organisation without any general > mailing list for its members?
Yep :o) > Why not? Did we discuss this on FSFE-UK? I think we did, but I can't remember. I think the main reason was that FSFE-UK was and is a fairly quiet list, and splitting topics away from it could simply result in two dead lists. > I would have thought this was the first essential for getting any > modern organisation running. Maybe. I don't think we've ever had a demand for one, the FSFE-UK and AFFS-Project are, by mailing list standards, fairly quiet. We could easily put one in place; but would it get used? > But is that really the case? A few mails ago, Tom Chance wrote > > 'The AFFS lists are already frequented by a small minority of free > software users, contributors & advocates from the UK.' > > Implying that there was more than one AFFS list - I assume he meant the > FSFE-UK list and the AFFS-project list? Which is not for the general > public and not pointed to on the website IIRC? Firstly, AFFS-Project is definitely a public list - it's on our site (on the Members page, which admittedly isn't a good position - we are currently looking at reorganisation of the information on our site though) and anyone can subscribe, you don't have to be a member. But yep, most people think FSFE-UK is "the AFFS list", or somehow associated with AFFS. And, de facto, it is associated with AFFS because AFFS was started by people on the FSFE-UK list. And, to be honest, it's probably no bad thing - we're all here already, and it's also good to have a fair readership who aren't AFFS members. That then leads us back to the "communicating with members" problem again, though :) Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
