That's exactly why the assembly ANNOUNEMENT was sent to the discussions
list and to all members via the assembly list (an announcement will also be
sent via snail mail). However, discussion around the assembly doesn't
interest most of the people, especially those who can't vote in the assembly
anyway. There is no reason to force the discussions on everybody.
If it is categorized under a "doesn't interest" category, they will dislike it in advance. An assembly is not just another discussion, and in my opinion it is not even a meta discussion. It is part of the reason why the NPO exists. It's not about being interested in a subject or not, and it's not an odd discussion about how the NPO should run. It is about the importance of the subject. In this case - it is a main subject for the NPO. Nobody is actually forced, and one can simply ignore a subject such as, "assembly - put your topics and comments here". You are never forced to read anything in any mailing list.
You are not everybody. Did you take a survey of all the people (including
78% of the friends who are not members) to see if they are interested? Fact
shows that almost all of the people are not interested in these issues. Only
25 addresses are subscribed to the meta list, even though it was announced
several times as the forum for these discussions.
Facts also say that people don't like subscribing to all kinds of mailing list. Not subscribing to a mailing list usually means nothing about his interest in the subject.
The announcement of the
assembly and the subscription information was sent to the discussions list.
Those who want to participate in the discussion are only one click away
from subscribing to meta.
All I am saying is that important subjects which you include in a "meta" frame, such as discussions about the coming assembly, should get the widest crowd. Those who doesn't want to read it, will naturally ignore the subject. There is no single mailing list with 100% loveable subjects.
Adir.
