On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005, Alon Altman wrote about "Assembly-related discussions":
People who wish to discuss the upcoming general assembly, and/or suggest
topics to be discussed are urged to subscribe to the meta list by sending
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alon, what's the point of sending these instructions to... the meta list??
I supposed you meant to send it to other lists...
These instructions were Bcc'd to discussions. The discussions list was
deliberately removed from the To: line to avoid replies to the discussions
list.
Once upon a time we had an assembly@ list for exactly this purpose. What's
wrong with that? In my personal opinion, if an Hamakor *full member* is not
interested in pre-voting discussion, he or she does not deserve to be a
member (and will proabably not even bother to come to vote, and give us
quorum problems).
You cannot unsubscribe (or subscribe for that matter) from assembly, other
than revoking your membership. Furthermore, for techincal reasons,
membership in assembly is updated manually before a message is sent.
According to proper netiquette, all mailing lists should allow an option to
unsubscribe. Moreover, for the sake of transparency, we should not limit
participation in meta discussions to members only, but open them to the
general public.
The meta list was opened not to inhibit discussion, but to encourage it,
in an Opt-in, rather than Opt-out fashion. The silent majority of
subscribers to discussions want this, as could be seen by the large number
of unsubscriptions and people not renewing their membership after the Elad
Efrat fiasco.
Alon
--
This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540
GPG public key at http://8ln.org/pubkey.txt
Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-=[ Random Fortune ]=-
Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is
doing it.
