Hello Simon,
>If ambit is truly collaborative ... I wouldn't say that ambit is 'truly collaborative' as that suggests to me that all parties are active participants which is not the case. Many people on the list and use it get info from etc but not to directly participate. There are a much smaller number of 'contributors' than list members and I would say ambit is a platform for exchange rather than collaboration (although there are collaborative aspects to this exchange but the 'truly collaborative' tag makes it sound essential, which it's not). > > If a significant number of people on the list feel that there is value in > some of the messages which have gone against the netiquette, then perhaps > it is the netiquette which should be altered rather than the behaviour of > the list members? > > best wishes, > Si. This is fair enough but I wonder what suggestions for change to the etiquette list would be? The "Do not use the list as a resource for technical support to learn software..." came out of conversations before the list started with people at Stills who were being inundated with random calls from people asking for advice on how to use software. Personally I am not interested in ambit becoming a resource for 'how to...' as I think there are plenty of other places to get information, such as how to use software, out there in the ether but not enough dialogue between the new media arts community in scotland about what people are actually doing. Of course the etiquette point is quite specific and as such doesn't rule out technical issues like looking for programmers, collaborators etc on a project...maybe this is too vague though and people thing we should just trash the tech restriction? The point about adding attachments is there for people like myself who are dialup connections and the 'chain letter' point is to not further fill people's mailboxes, often with well meant but misdirected petitions (To anyone adding your name to the current supposed UN petition when I checked the UN site it said they are not collecting signatures and didn't start this so not to send these petitions on, as people need to petition their own governments rather than the UN). Most of the other etiquette points seem to be pretty practical issues, don't they? Bev ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
