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 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
