Yellow Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>-->So let me get all this straight... It seems that several people are upset
>simply because someone got tired of all the bickering on the GML and decided
>to try to do something about it by starting another list EXPERIMENTALLY.
>Would someone please show me where it is stated that everything has to be
>discussed here first? Deb is just trying to find a solution to a problem,
>and those of us that support the SocialGML agree with her, at least mostly.
>No one HAS to subscribe to it.<--
As the Social list is intended to change the nature of this group by
encouraging certain messages to be sent elsewhere, it impacts on this
group. In the past we have discussed changes before implementing them.
And it has worked quite well. Even if that was not the case it would
have been a simple curtesy to discuss it here first.
If such a discussion had resulted in a concessus that it was worth an
experiment the experiment would have my full support.
I disagree in principle to unilateral experiments. Just because it is an
experiment does not make it justifiable not to consult the other users
of this list.
It has been suggested that the experiment run for six months before it
is evaluated. What I want to know is how can it be evaluated unless
everyone sees the messages from both groups? If they only subscribe to
one group how will they know what is going on elsewhere?
If we are expected to subscribe to both groups, as Bill suggested, then
what is the point?
I am not against a second list in principle, as is shown by some of my
other messages, but I firmly believe there are better ways of doing it
than has been chosen in this case. I strongly argue for this experiment
to be cancelled until we have had a proper discussion of how to use a
second list. Then give it a try.
--
Julian
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