On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:01, Andrew Ho wrote: > ... > > I vote for this option and would like to see Andrew's list charter applied. > > The applicability of my proposed List Charter remains unknown. It remains > to be seen whether: > 1) enough people feel that we need something like that > 2) enough people will migrate to a mailing list based on that > 3) five willing and able bodies will volunteer to fill the positions
Thank you Andrew for making the effort to compose a list charter....I think it is quite timely...this list is 5 or more years old now and can benefit immensely from some "public" ground rules that will both enhance the quality of our dialogue and reliability of the list service!! > As I said, we still have [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the meantime. When enough of > us feel sufficiently "moved" to take concrete action, then we shall have a > new list. > It sounds like all that is needed is a change in list administrator(s). To do that Brian needs to take action and allow volunteers to manage the list. One thing that should be pointed out is that list admins have access to the list roster...the roster can be made public but that makes the list vulnerable to list "miners" and potentially spam if I am not mistaken. This puts list admins in a privileged position. On a related subject, not knowing who is in a community is not a healthy thing in the long run...so there should be a way for folks to introduce themselves...perhaps include a short profile (I am on another list in which each posting includes a 3 sentence self profile of the person posting). This would also make it possible to measure how many lurkers there are vs. visible members....I would venture that this statistic might be a good although imperfect, surrogate indicator of the quality of the list as a trusted forum for collaboration. Joseph
