Thanks Julia. A really helpful response.
I'm in favour of your suggestions.
Francis
On 4 Jul 2011, at 14:23, Julia Say wrote:
On 4 Jul 2011, Francis Wood wrote:
The Dartmouth list is for anyone interested in Northmbrian Small-pipes.
It is administered and monitored entirely from without NPS membership. No
member or
officer of the society has any say in how it is run, although several (only
about
half) committee members read it and some contribute (obviously).
Very occasionally Wayne (who does run it) and I consult on whether names are
actual
people or not, that is all.
The NPS
Discussion list was subsequently established for Society-specific
discussion.
I remain as a subscriber to the second list because I don't know whether it
still is
useful. I have no means of knowing.
Tim I set it up, and do the necessary admin (mostly non-subscribers trying
to
cross post from Dartmouth) to keep NPS announcements / politics from annoying
non-
members.
It presently has only 89 subscribers. As a consequence it is of little use to
reach
most NPS members.
It was also set up as a stop-gap until a discussion forum could be
activated on
the NPS website, where political discussions could be held in separate
threads
which need not bother those had no interest.
If (and this is not for me to decide, but NPS-discussion subscribers) we
have
reached the point where it could realistically be suspended, we can do so.
What I would actually propose (wearing my secretarial hat for a moment) is to
convert it to an NPS-info list, subscribe all NPS members who have an email
address unless they opt out, and use it for Society announcements with the
reply
function set to come to the sec.only. That is to say, not a discussion list,
but an
info-list, with discussions pointed to the website forum.
This would have to be passed by the committee and announced in the NL, since
it is
a further change, so it isn't going to happen now before the autumn, although
we
(the 89 subscribers) could all agree that NPS Discussion has passed its
use-by
date, and agree not to post to it, but rather use the forum.
Hope this helps
Julia
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