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
>
>
>
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