Well, I guess it comes down to the purpose if the list. (shrugging)

What I don't understand is this urge for openness. We are a private club:
I'm happy we want to be open with members, but I feel no requirement to be
open with non-members.

Yes, Ace is right. The comment is frequently made face-to-face, which is
prudent, I suppose... But to me, the point of any mailing list is to be
able to talk about stuff without having to meet face-to-face.
On Apr 7, 2013 10:40 PM, "Ron" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We quickly run into mailing list hell. We have to be careful with how
> many we create.
>
> We have *a lot* of special-purpose lists that are basically completely
> unused. And it could get hard for people - especially new members - to
> know which ones to subscribe to or use.
>
> Adding one more for this special purpose - as mak suggested - is
> probably okay. But I'd be *very* cautious about adding more.
>
> Ron
>
> On 2013-04-07 22:35, Roswyne wrote:
> > The problem is that another opt-in list is of limited value for what I'm
> > proposing. We have the announce list that you can use to broadcast a
> > message TO all members, but all responses are redirected to discuss.
> Also,
> > afaik, subscription to announce is not limited to members.
> >
> > This isn't to say that targeted mailing lists for special interests
> aren't
> > useful, but I want to clarify what I'm requesting.
> > On Apr 7, 2013 10:00 PM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Mak, sounds like a great idea. There shouldn't be a reason not to do
> it,
> > > esp. if it's voluntary sign-up. If someone doesn't like it, they simply
> > > don't subscribe.
> > >
> > > Siu/Ron: Agree that if people are being always told "don't discuss
> this on
> > > a public list" that we should have a members-only list that members are
> > > subscribed to. It will take a lot of traffic off of discuss@, if
> people
> > > would prefer to discuss it on the members-only lists (it would be up
> to the
> > > poster which list she/he posts to).
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7 April 2013 20:36, Roswyne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> We have done this in the past, but every few months we keep being told
> > >> "we shouldn't discuss that on an archived list. This seems like an
> > >> excellent time to set up an option to do just that.
> > >>  On Apr 7, 2013 7:54 PM, "Mak Kolybabi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On 2013-04-07 19:25, Roswyne wrote:
> > >>> > I support this and further propose an additional list: members
> only and
> > >>> > unarchived, to discuss issues pertaining to SkSp as an organization
> > >>> and as
> > >>> > a physical space.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm very much against privatizing that. Organizationally, we try to
> make
> > >>> our
> > >>> actions, plans, and decisions as open and public as possible.
> > >>>
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