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> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
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>> Closed-for-posting mailing lists that are publically readable is the
>> best suggestion we've had to meet these ends so far.
>>
>> Anyone have better suggestions?
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> I don't know that this is _better_, but...perhaps we could have
> the lists that you suggest, but also have separate, publicly postable,
> lists where anyone could comment. If one person from the design committee
> would be willing to read these public lists and interact with the people
> there, saying "that's a good idea, we'll use it" or (probably more common)
> "we'd like to do that, but we can't for reasons XYZ," that would go a long
> way towards making the community feel invovled. Perhaps this duty could
> rotate, so that various design-committee voices would be heard on the
> outside.
>
> Dave
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I think this is what most people have had in mind all along: a
read-only list for those trusted to be responsible for each portion of
the project, coupled with an open list where anyone can have input.
I'm talking a pair of lists for each working
group/committee/whatever-you-want-to-call it.
jdb
