Proposed mailing list changes

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.