[IMC Bombay] Re: [Imc-india] Idea for Indymedia during the WSF in Mumbai

[Vickram Crishna]

At 23:02 -0300 27/11/2003, evan wrote:
>
>Mailinglist Proposal
>To incorporate both indymedia activists within indymedia and 
>internationals coming for the WSF I think it might be a good idea to 
>create a mailinglist for discussion and organizing. We can create 
>new lists easily at http://newlist.indymedia.org/ . There are lots 
>of people on the imc-india list and i feel awkward taking it over to 
>use for this one event and flooding people with email. That said, 
>clearly indymedia india hasn't used mailinglists much for organizing 
>up until now, so perhaps it's not a good idea. Can somebody from 
>india give me some feedback on this idea?
>

Well, my own experience has been that only a very small fraction of 
people participate in these lists. Given the fact that this proposed 
list is a very purposeful one, I hope that whoever joins has come 
there with at least the intention of participating, which is not true 
of normal lists that are mostly full of lurkers. This is my 
experience of the two indymedia lists too in India, though I do not 
know how many members are registered, and I suspect also true of 
other indymedia lists, judging from a few remarks I see on the irc 
channel.

If we can get at least three or four people who will be part of 
Indymedia WSF, whether from the Indian lists or from outside, I say 
let's go for a specialist list.
-- 
Vickram