Hurray for bikeshedding! On 04/08/13 01:56, Roswyne wrote: > 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/ >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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