Matt wrote: > This seems like it's going in circles. I'm not really sure why anyone > would want to contact us personally with something they didn't want to > send to the list.
Wasn't this originally your suggestion? Thinking about this more we should probably try: > > 1) [email protected] > > 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - for specific enquiries that you don't want > publicly available. It would make sense to have a nominated person or > persons that address mail in there - James I would think - who decides > if an email should be forwarded to the list because it really is a > public issue - or respond and acknowledge the email and seek a > response from those in the team that it seems appropriate to. > > 3) a team page where everyone who is on the team-cellml list has a > picture and a small blurb (kind of like http://sbml.org/contacts/) ... > which is really just to give a face to those who are quite deeply > involved. I would imagine people like Penny Noble to be on that. If > someone contacts someone on that page then it will likely be quite > personal. > > On 6/25/07, Andrew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David Brooks wrote: >>> See below... >>> >>> On 25/06/2007 4:32 p.m., Andrew Miller wrote: >>>> James Lawson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Andrew Miller wrote: >>>>> >>>> I don't think we should use the word 'project team' because there is no >>>> formal project team. Perhaps we can just have a list of people >>>> categorised by their interest in the CellML project, and then a contact >>>> page which helps people find certain people (for example, we could have >>>> a category for technical issues with cellml.org, which would list Tommy, >>>> a category for people with the ability to curate cardiac >>>> electrophysiology models, which would list James, and a category for >>>> people with an interest in cardiac electrophysiological modelling, which >>>> would list anyone who wanted to be on the list). >>>> >>>>> There is then the issue of whether we use our own email >>>>> addresses or @cellml.org addresses. Andre is keen on the latter, and I >>>>> agree. >>>>> >>>> Although I am not entirely convinced that it is necessary or beneficial, >>>> and I think that we risk harming the community nature of CellML by >>>> saying that only certain people can get a cellml.org e-mail address. >>>> >>>> >>> Surely there's no harm in having a small number of generic @cellml.org >>> email addresses that reflect the roles people play? (eg >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I don't >>> think it's a good idea to have lots of these addresses (as this can >>> get confusing), nor should the roles be too specialised. >> We have tried this in the past, and it resulted in the fragmentation of >> the community, and it had several negative outcomes: >> 1) People were sending all messages of a given type to the aliases, >> instead of to the list. However, because these aliases were closed >> mailing lists with generally out of date membership, mails sent to the >> lists were essentially getting forgotten about when there were people on >> the main list who could have answered the message. >> 2) There was no archive so there was no way to tell if a question was >> answered. >> 3) People often referred to e-mails sent to these lists at the CellML >> meetings, but it was hard to tell what they were talking about because >> only some people at the meeting got the messages. >> 4) Because the aliases were open, they got a lot of spam, which made it >> hard to see the signal over the noise. >> 5) Because the traffic was fragmented, it looked to anyone looking at >> the cellml-discussion archives like there was nothing happening with the >> CellML project. >> >> As a result of this, we decided over a year ago to get rid of info, >> tools and other lists like that and consolidate them all into >> cellml-discussion. I don't really think we want to go back to the way it >> was before without addressing all the problems it caused last time. >> >> Best regards, >> Andrew >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Dave >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cellml-discussion mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> cellml-discussion mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion >> > _______________________________________________ > cellml-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
