personally I just mute the email conversations that are boring.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ben Lippincott
<[email protected]>wrote:

> We could make a private subreddit
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Justin Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Seems like a different medium might work better. I fear that different
>> people will have different opinions about what is off-topic.
>> Maybe instead....
>> Fourm
>> Reddit
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Ben Lippincott <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Wooot! Let's do it!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bethany Munyan 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was thinking the same thing. I like the idea of having an 'off-topic'
>>>> mailing list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Chris Egeland 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey hackers!
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been watching the mailing lists very closely for some time now,
>>>>> and have noticed a general uptrend in the volume of email sent to the
>>>>> discuss list.  Sometimes we get offtopic and go off on tangents about
>>>>> toast, or other topics which are fun to talk about, but are ultimately
>>>>> irrelevant to the space itself.  Usually, this isn't a problem, but for
>>>>> someone who is interested in the space, but not the minutiae of every
>>>>> little bit of day-to-day operations, it can quickly turn into an
>>>>> overwhelming amount of email.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today, I'm asking for input on how we should proceed with the mailing
>>>>> lists.  As you may know, we currently have 5 lists, two of which are
>>>>> public, one semipublic, and two private. [email protected] and
>>>>> [email protected] are the two that everyone knows about.  Members
>>>>> may know that they are automatically subscribed to [email protected].
>>>>>  Board members are subscribed to [email protected] and us sysadmin
>>>>> folk are members of [email protected].
>>>>>
>>>>> My recommendation is to create an "offtopic" list, which would have
>>>>> very very lax rules on what can be posted.  Anything you want to chat
>>>>> about.  Want to debate why the RubberDucks is a terrible team name and the
>>>>> Aeros was WAY better?  Sure, no problem.  Got a pothole on Market street
>>>>> that irks you every day?  Have at it.  Joke threads? Toast? No problem.
>>>>>  The other side to this idea is that the discuss list would have some 
>>>>> basic
>>>>> rules imposed that mean that any topics to the discuss list would be
>>>>> required to be relevant to the space itself.  Projects occurring at the
>>>>> space would be relevant topics, open hours discussion, meeting minutes, 
>>>>> etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, let me know what you guys think.  I'm not officially proposing
>>>>> this, but we may chat about it at the next meeting as a discussion topic,
>>>>> because it would fundamentally mean we change how the mailing lists are
>>>>> organized and structured.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>
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