[New-imc] IMC Romania - mailinglists

[boud]

hi joanne,
   Thanks for the clarifications. :)

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, joanne richardson wrote:

> > Just to clarify: i would suggest that both the mailing list for the
> > editorial group and the public list
> > - be open to anyone who wishes to subscribe and participate
> > - have public archives
> 
> now we only have the editorial list, which is public and anyone can join
> without invitation & archives are public. the second list is for public
> discussions (public is a modifyer for discussion not the list) and as we
> wrote the thing, the second list would be "more public" than the first. it
> was a translation from the romanian, in which it is probably more obvious

OK, i thought it might be something like this.

> that the lists are both public, though intended for different things. but
> it's also a question of a bit more than semantics. it was written with a
> bit of caution because, to be honest, the first week after we set up the
> editorial list was pretty disappointing. we sent an announcement to a
> couple of other lists in romania (with the URL address for subscribing),
> and we had a few new people join, who despite the announcement that this
> would be for editorial policy and discussion of the content to go up on
> the first site launch, sent general news announcements, petitions, and
> anything else you might imagine, to the tune of 5 mails a day and everyone
> got really frustrated. a good deal of the initial trafic on the list was
> for re-explaining what the list was meant for and what constitutes spam.
> so although both lists (or perhaps more than two, since we want to have a
> separate one for radio & video) are publicly accesible and archived, i
> think we need to be careful about how we advertise them to subscribers -
> who would ideally be also producers & decision-makers (taking into account
> that what happened last week after the flood of announcements was not
> exactly either).

This sort of confusion happens. By putting clear info when you "advertise"
the lists on the purpose of each list, also on the listinfo pages (if using
mailman), and by reminding people a few times on the list itself, the 
culture of a list tends to get established.

Anyway, it's clear that your concept of list openness is fairly
conservative ;) Indymedia style.
 
> > for the next steps in the process, especially
> > "NEW IMC PROCESS - HOW IT WORKS"
> > You've clearly done steps 1., 2., 3. and 5., and plan to do 4.
> > So it looks like steps 6. and 7. are next...!
> 
> thanks. just to be clear, i'm assuming we can request the mailing lists on
> indymedia.org before sending the mission statement and reply to membership
> criteria, no?

Correct. The form at http://newlist.indymedia.org has a box for comments,
you might want to mention that you've made the initial request for a 
new IMC to the new-imc working group and are working through the new-imc
process such as the "membership criteria".
 
pozdrawiam
boud