Re: [ga] GA-REVIEW & Other Mailing Lists

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 15:56 11.06.2001 +1000, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>Hi Michael
>
> > IMHO, I agree with Marilyn....we need to avoid being critical.  We do also
> > need to look at the problem of multiple lists.  There are several
>solutions.
> >
> > 1) reduce the number of lists
>
>Agreed -- eleven is too many.  The problem is the seven sublists should be
>reduced to five or less.  I'd suggest the following:
>
>[ga] and [ga-full]    leave these alone unless there's a formal vote
>[ga-announce]        encourage the DNSO Secretariat to use it or lose it

announce@dnso.org is separate from the GA. we don't need a ga-announce.

>[ga-icann]                mainstream issue.  scrap the list.
>[ga-rules]                 like an O/S it essential to separate levels of
>debate.
>[ga-abuse]               replace with a website-based complaints system

disagree - mail is the most open form of input.

>[ga-roots]                it's the most popular.  let it run.
>[ga-udrp]                 special interest group must be interested
>[ga-org]                   -- ditto --
>[ga-sys]                   meant for detailed issues like registration
>systems
>
>In other words, like an operating system the separate lists must represent
>different levels of the hierarchy.  The "rules" list is needed for internal
>housekeeping.

or different sectors of the interest space.


>Special purpose lists are like subroutines -- you use them when you need
>them.
>
> > 2) make the lists web based and thus threaded
>
>I'm not sure of your meaning here.  Archives can be threaded.

anyone can set up a mhonarc archive (or similar) to show how this can be 
done. secretariat can adopt "best of breed", once people have shown (with 
their feet) how they prefer to read the messages.

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