[clue-admin] Email Lists Referendum

[Greg Knaddison]

I see it that way because it's "always been that way" since I joined the lists.

My understanding is that you are trying to change the group to focus
on the local aspects and I am fine with that. There are many times
where I've been confused by people who look to local groups for help
on a problem that isn't a local problem.

Let's look at the recent archives:
http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-tech/2010-November/thread.html

I think the majority of those e-mails would be better handled by a
national or international topic specific mailing list.

For example this line of questions/answers about how DNS works:
http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-tech/2010-November/023047.html

If the focus of the list is Colorado why ask a generic DNS question here?

Cheers,
Greg

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:54 AM, David "Barahon" Willson
<DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> Greg: With the huge number of online LUGs available, why would you prefer
> the online aspect of CLUE? This is not intended as a challenge, but an
> exploration. I see CLUE as fundamentally local, and therefore I see it as a
> gatherings-based org. Please help me understand your different view.
>
> Sent via David's Droid X.
>
> -----Original message-----
>
> From: Greg Knaddison <Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com>
> To: CLUE admin <clue-admin at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 15:42:34 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: [clue-admin] Email Lists Referendum
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Greg Knaddison
>> wrote:
>>> I'll vote for Current. IMO, anything else is suicide and would drive
>>> away our already dwindling membership.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why it is "suicide". A single list hasn't been a problem for
>> BLUG.
>
> My impression is that usually when someone posts a job to the wrong
> place or a -talk topic to the -tech list there's more discussion of
> the off-topicnesss than there is discussion of the issue.
>
> If we put everything on one list that's basically saying "anything
> off-topic is welcome here." That works when lists are small or have
> always been that way or the list membership is relatively
> heterogeneous in their beliefs about what's on-topic (I guess BLUG
> fits one or more of those).
>
> I predict that the result of merging all the lists will be that people
> who don't like the new mix of posts will unsubscribe. We'll also get
> arguing about what's on-topic or not and the arguing will cause some
> to unsubscribe.
>
> "Suicide" is definitely a loaded word, but I couldn't think of a
> better way to describe the proposal since it means the part of the
> group I cared about the most (the mailing list) will become less
> useful and less trafficked.
>
> I understand now that this is the intent: weed out people who don't
> attend meetings. So, that's fine. I would no longer call it "suicide"
> and instead maybe "winnowing of the herd."
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
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