On 15/03/18 07:23, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > 1. Host it as a Google Groups non-archived email list, or as a somewhat > more private MailMan email list at my vanity domain hoster? (In either > case, Google already gives themselves permission to scrape individual > GMail users' emails, there will probably be at least one @gmail.com user > on the list, and who knows in what ways information will effectively > leak that way, so I'm not sure that hosting the list myself gives any > significant additional privacy.) (I personally don't want to use Slack > unless I'm being paid to.) >
I generally dislike Google Groups but I also don't know much about how they work and the amount of privacy they offer so I will go with your statement that they offer as much privacy as mailman and say that I don't care. On the other hand, if people are leaning towards a mailman solution, lets set that up. If you feel that it's too big a burden for you, I can arrange something using my company's servers. > 2. What, if any, gatekeeping should be done on joining the list, to > encourage people to be more candid than they might be on, say, a > Facebook post? I suspect the main problem is the multitude of Web sites > that simply mirror email lists -- normally, they just clutter search > results, but even one of them sneaking in would violate the expected > privacy. I'm inclined not to gatekeep individuals, and I'd also like to > encourage people like undergrads contemplating a startup to join the > list, so long as everyone understands that talk on the list remains > confidential. One idea is that people could email to ask to be put on > the list, or should go to a Web form to ask to join and wait for > moderator approval. Another idea is that people could join by posting a > message introducing themselves to the list, and then a moderator adds > them to the list and the introductory post goes through to the list, > which doubles as introducing people. I'd prefer we didn't need a human > in the loop, but maybe that's the simplest way to keep a Web list > archiver out. I'd like something simple that helps the list achieve its > goal, not a barrier/burden/annoyance. > This is a hard one but I think that for this kind of low-membership list I would go with an introduction form that would be moderated and if it's not spam, it's sent to the list. Once in the list, the members of the list can +1 or thumbs up and unless someone would be totally against it, we could accept the person. We should not allow people to send emails straight to the list because... *spam*. > 3. Who wants to volunteer to co-administer to the email list? Just to > do whatever gatekeeping of joining from question #2, not to moderate > posts or anything like that. I can volunteer, but we need at least 1 > more, in case of bus. > I am happy to help. Would it be possible to somehow block cross-posting to the list? I.e. block posting to racket-money and racket-users for example? I fear that one day a mistake will be made by replying to a post on racket-money with data that should stay private and it ends up on all the cross-posted lists. > (Feels off to write that much about trying to maintain a modicum of > privacy for perhaps a dozen people with very light traffic, but maybe > that's because any nonzero degree of privacy is becoming unfamiliar. :) > > BTW, I'm probably soon moving out of the jet-setting/sofa-setting world > of independent technical consulting, to somewhere that I can focus on > solving technical problems without all the extra work of also running a > small business by myself. But even though my day job probably will no > longer involve making money with Racket, I'll remain interested in the > great Racket community, and in using Racket for personal projects. > Good luck with that. :) Maybe you can write up when you find sometime about whatever you learned regarding using racket in a business setting? Maybe make that the first post to the list. -- Paulo Matos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/3830b7fc-c990-621f-0a9a-52c1657e9d64%40linki.tools. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
