Hi, I have a humble suggestion, don’t know if it will go down well with you guys. If there is any person on the list, who’s confident about dealing with any particular issue, and answering questions pertaining to that particular problem, example banking, or skype, or any such small topic, then he can come forward and volunteer to provide his/ her email id and other contact details so that issues pertaining to that area get directly addressed to that person alone, thereby reducing traffic on the list. This is of course possible if people actually come forth and are willing to take up such a responsibility. The only disadvantage of such a venture would be that other people on the list will not have access to that particular problem. But in any case every one is not really interested in everything. But this then leaves us back to square 1. Where we have other smaller lists for specific issues. I was merely thinking out loud. Don’t know how fruitful it will be… Thanx, Shireen.
On 4/28/13, harish <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends > > To summarize the following suggestions were made and my response to it: > 1 Modify membership to make it reference driven. Generally this was not much > favored as many had joined by surfing on the web and that we should not put > such restrictions. > My opinion to concurs with it > > 2 Appreciate the concerns and suggestions were made to have a small group to > screen out new members. > My comments: There are some operational issues to do this readily. Presently > we don't have any mechanism to modify the membership form, Until and unless > there is some way to add new fields there is no possibility to make it > happen. We shall explore for its possibility. > > 3 Decoupling topics. Suggestions were also made to make focused sub groups. > My comments: There should be a strong need to do so and to have > sufficient traffic driving it or some major developments in the echosphere > warranting it. Presently, there is no other sufficient candidate qualifying > it. > > 4 Establishing identity. There were suggestion to maintain anonymity and > those who need to keep their identity concealed to respect it. > My comments: Internet is essentially an anonymous media. There is no way to > stop impersonation. In absence of a reliable mechanism, there is no sense to > pretend otherwise. > > 5 Multiple and fake accounts. Suggestion to screen the existing list. > My comments: We don't really have much problem of spam. Anyone found > violating the list guidelines is dealt in a universal and those warranting > individualized consideration is also being done.A balancing act is done > considering the interests of the larger group and individual needs > > Some time we do get invitation mails from social sites. This happens both > because of accessibility and ignorance of users to make selective selections > from their contact list. We only need to live with and ignore such mails, as > atleast these invitation is easy to identify in the subject line. > Those who are quiet and don't bother us in any way, they can be left > alone. > > Yes, our list is growing and our traffic does not grow in that sane > proportion. Our members are well aware that they respond when they need to. > Agreed, some of the members are more active when they join in, but they do > get the realization when to restrain comments. Hence, let us have confidence > in our members that they will maintain their maturity. > > Regards > Harish Kotian > Moderator > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
