On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Fabian Fang <f...@mac.com> wrote: > On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: > >> The lemlists list is an underused list, but it allows a little more >> freewheeling discussions regarding the other LEM lists. > > Len also wrote in another thread: > >> The chastisement was to take a discussion to the LEMlists list, which was >> specifically set up to discuss the policies and practices on the LEM lists. >> It is not an active list, but many of the LEM nannies and Dan do monitor it >> closely. That being said, as I posted before, we do allow civil discussion >> of list issues on the list. > > For those members who are not familiar with the Lemlists Group, information > can be found here: > <http://groups.google.com/group/lemlists/about> > > As a Group Manager (formerly List Nanny) for several LEM Groups, I was > pleased when Dan set up the Lemlists Group back in June 2007, and looked > forward to reading meaningful comments and suggestions. However, I do not > believe that its existence has been well publicized. If "many of the LEM > nannies and Dan do monitor it closely," as Len stated, but about which I > have doubts, they would have noticed for sure that the group has not served > its original purpose. Almost all of the messages posted to the Lemlists > Group for the year 2009 were initiated by one member, and those messages > were all Off-Topic, having nothing to do with "policies and practices on the > LEM lists." Whoever serving as managers for that group could have and > should have taken some action about it. Periodic reminders about the > existence of Lemlists Group on all other LEM Groups, by Dan or some others, > might have helped to enhance its utilization. > > In any case, because of the above situation, we do accept occasional "civil" > (in Len's word) discussion of group issues on the group, as we allow other > occasional off-topic discussions. However, we did have to shut down a few > cases in which some members complained, here in the G-Group, about their > unique personal problems in other LEM groups. > > Please consider subscribing to the Lemlists Group, and make constructive > contributions there. >
Thanks for reiterating some of my concerns vis a vis the promotion of the LEMlists Group list. While I appreciate the potential value of such a list for general or overall LEM business ans rules issues I remain convinced that business and rules issues specific to a thread on a particular list are more meaingful when they remain on that list. Sweeping business and rules issues into ( to put it in Dan's term )a "black hole " is just asking for more confusion and therefore more trouble. And is less likely to be informative to LEM listers of that particular list who need the clarity. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com /in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
