Certainly: we maintain a website, blog, Flickr, Twitter, etc. to have a public face.
My question was simply: is a mailing list a good addition to that public face, or are there other advantages to having a members-only list that we might want to consider? You've mentioned many advantages to making your new list members-only... yet I think that list would look better to the public than this one... On Apr 8, 2013 1:26 AM, "Mak Kolybabi" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-04-07 22:51, Roswyne wrote: > > 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. > > Being open, publicly, buys us a lot. It keeps our heads in the correct, > accurate > context. It helps us interact with the community. It helps us attract > members. > It helps us dispel the myths, prejudices, and FUD that come part and > parcel with > the term 'hacker'[1]. Anyone that spends half-an-hour on the Internet can > get an > accurate picture of who we are and what we're about, which is great > marketing[2]. > > If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen^wopenness > would be it[3]. > > [1] Not to mention the fact that we're all a bit weird. > [2] Excuse me as I take a silkwood shower for saying the m-word. > [3] http://www.lyricscrawler.com/song/3953.html > > -- > Mak Kolybabi > <[email protected]> > > () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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