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ALV votable point: Do you agre to restructuring our mailing lists? Proposal-by: Either: Quint or Wizzup (whomever is present / can vouch)
We would like to restructure the mailing lists. Our aim is to foster a more productive, friendly discussion about everyday space topics among current members, while giving non-members a separate forum for discussion.
We want to end up with the following lists:
1. members-announce@: This would be for important announcements. The list is
moderated (which means every message has to be manually approved) and all members subscribed, and the list is members only.
Example: "Space is closed for the next two weeks, starting XXXX-XX-XX"
2. members@: For internal space discussion, the subscription is optional but
members only.
Example: "Hey, we're out of ketchup. Can someone ask Justa to bring some?"
3. announce@: For public events, moderated, subscription optional and open to
the public. (Unchanged from the current situation)
Example: "Hey, TechInc has existed to 9001 years and we're throwing a party on XXXX-XX-XX."
4. friends@: This would be a public list, subscription is optional and open to
the public
Example: "You're doing X, I think you should do Y because of Z"
We currently have the following:
1. members@: Space news and discussion, open to everyone. Intention is that
every member is on the list, but this is not currently the case.
2. discuss@: More offtopic or intense discussion, created in the hopes that we
could have every member on members@
3. announce@: Same as before
There may be other mailing lists out there, but this proposal does not affect them.
In short:
discuss@ merged into members@; members@ only for members; create friends@ and copy over users from members@; create members-announce@ and register all members;
Votable point is specifically: "Do you agree with these changes?", there is no
rank voting and there are no other choices.
The following steps could be undertaken to get us to the suggested situation:
1. Remove non-members from members@ (keep a list of who was removed), moderate
who joins
2. Add all members to members@, but do not enable delivery for everyone (folks
can send, but do not automatically receive)
3. Create members-announce@ - moderated list, register all members
4. Merge discuss@ and members@ again.
5. Create friends@ list - which is for externals (non members) and members. We
can add the ML-users who we removed from members@ to the friends@ list.