Thanks Julia. A really helpful response. I'm in favour of your suggestions.
Francis On 4 Jul 2011, at 14:23, Julia Say wrote: > On 4 Jul 2011, Francis Wood wrote: > >> The Dartmouth list is for anyone interested in Northmbrian Small-pipes. > > It is administered and monitored entirely from without NPS membership. No > member or > officer of the society has any say in how it is run, although several (only > about > half) committee members read it and some contribute (obviously). > Very occasionally Wayne (who does run it) and I consult on whether names are > actual > people or not, that is all. > >> The NPS >> Discussion list was subsequently established for Society-specific >> discussion. >> I remain as a subscriber to the second list because I don't know whether it >> still is >> useful. I have no means of knowing. > > Tim & I set it up, and do the necessary admin (mostly non-subscribers trying > to > cross post from Dartmouth) to keep NPS announcements / politics from annoying > non- > members. > > It presently has only 89 subscribers. As a consequence it is of little use to > reach > most NPS members. > > It was also set up as a "stop-gap" until a discussion forum could be > activated on > the NPS website, where "political" discussions could be held in separate > threads > which need not bother those had no interest. > > If (and this is not for me to decide, but "NPS-discussion" subscribers) we > have > reached the point where it could realistically be suspended, we can do so. > > What I would actually propose (wearing my secretarial hat for a moment) is to > convert it to an "NPS-info" list, subscribe all NPS members who have an email > address unless they opt out, and use it for Society announcements with the > reply > function set to come to the sec.only. That is to say, not a discussion list, > but an > info-list, with discussions pointed to the website forum. > > This would have to be passed by the committee and announced in the NL, since > it is > a further change, so it isn't going to happen now before the autumn, although > we > (the 89 subscribers) could all agree that NPS Discussion has passed its > use-by > date, and agree not to post to it, but rather use the forum. > > Hope this helps > Julia > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
