The idea was presented to me in a conversation I had yesterday, that
while it's important to allow anyone to communicate with the OGB, the
ogb-discuss list gets a lot of mail that's more of a distraction than
a benefit.
While I was unsure of the idea then, today's outburst on the naming
of the "compare" program is making wonder if it's not a good idea,
as several members declaring the issue not an OGB matter hasn't
stopped the e-mail. (Unless Joerg wants to propose disbanding the
ARC or SFW communities, there's nothing the OGB can do - we can't
override a community decision.)
Perhaps cleaner would be splitting into two lists - leaving
ogb-discuss for general chatter and discussion and creating a
moderated ogb-business for the official public work forum of the OGB,
where proposals can be made and debated, while off-topic tangents are
pruned.
This would be much like most national governments in democratic
countries, where everyone can write their representative and hold a
public debate, but the general public isn't let onto the floor of
Congress/Parliament to have unmoderated screaming matches whenever
someone feels slighted, but is invited in to give testimony at the
appropriate times.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
