On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:37:54AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote: > Adam Megacz wrote: > > I'm just saying that it's a bit of a hassle to put every posting I > > make through the mental filter of "gee, how will this response look to > > people who know me ten years from now" -- in addition to the mostly > > automatic "gee, how will this look to the message's intended audience" > > filter. > > > > The poll so far makes it clear that "close the list" is the majority > viewpoint, including among the board members. So let me just suggest a > possibility based on this class of objection. > > hcoop-sysadmin now is used for (or at least, in my assumptions, has been > intended to be used for) two classes of messages: architectural > discussions where we can clearly benefit from as broad participation as > possible, and short notes between admins coordinating work. Would > everyone be happy with moving just the second class to a separate, > private list? > > For the broad discussions, it's entirely possible that interested > parties outside the co-op could have valuable things to say. Non-member > developers of software packages might even watch our lists to see if > they can get ideas for how to improve them. We can probably all agree > that the second class has no such possibilities.
This will require people to be subscribed to two mailing lists. This is unnecessary overcomplication of a very simple thing. We should keep our technical matters for ourselves. No one will be contributing to our open list, I can tell you that right away. And for special people who do have an established name and a specific reason to see our technical traffic (while not being members - which is silly), we can always make special allowances. But again if you just can't get over this (even after a poll), create two mailing lists. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
