[clue-announce] Please vote: change to email lists.

[David L. Anselmi]

Please read this, and vote your individual preference:

You may be aware that there's been some debate about whether CLUE is best served by the current 
layout of its email lists.

David Willson has been driving for a change in our email list structure for some time, and has 
succeeded in getting support from enough involved people in CLUE leadership to create a 
"referendum", and inquire with you as to your will in the matter, in the form of this vote. Now is 
your opportunity to express your preference on the structure of the CLUE email lists for the 2011 
program year.

You will submit your vote, by sending me an email to DLWillson at TheGeek.NU with one of the following 
options. This is a non-anonymous, non-private vote, like Congress. Your name will be attached to 
your vote, and you may only vote once, but you may change your mind up to the January 11th meeting, 
at which time a final opportunity to vote will be presented and voting will be closed and counted.

A. One:

CLUE should go forward with just one email list. Posts would be expected to abide common rules of 
netiquette. For example, to have appropriate subject-lines, and be presumably of interest to CLUE 
members.

B. One + Announce

CLUE should go forward with two email lists. One for everything of interest to CLUE members and one 
for announcements only.

C. Current

CLUE should continue as it has been, with CLUE-Admin, CLUE-Announce, CLUE-Cert, CLUE-Jobs, 
CLUE-Members, CLUE-Talk, and CLUE-Tech. Each list has a description of what constitutes an 
appropriate posting. There is no "default" list.

D. Something else

Do you have a great idea that isn't represented by one of the above choices? Write it in, and call 
your 12 closest friends to make sure they write in the same thing.

-------------- Issue summary by Dave A --------------

There has been some debate on CLUE-Admin and CLUE-Talk about this, please see the archives for 
details.  Please use one of those lists to add your voice to the debate if you like.

Reasons given to vote A:
- There isn't one list to reach all members, to tell them about installfest or your totally awesome 
Christmas party.
- People finding CLUE for the first time aren't sure which list gets them "in the know".
- There isn't enough traffic on any list to justify separating it.  For the small volume of mail on 
a list you don't want to see it should be easy to filter it "by hand".
- BLUG operates on one list for the most part and they are more successful than CLUE, for various 
values of successful.

Reasons given to vote B:
- All the reasons to vote for A, plus:
- A low volume list allows those who don't want list traffic to get event information.

Reasons given to vote C:
- Separate lists makes it easy to filter (or unsubscribe) based on topic, which increases each 
person's signal to noise ratio.
- It's easy to know what each list covers from the descriptions and archives.
- The current set of lists provides topical separation that meets everyone's need to filter by topic.

Reasons to vote for D:
- You have a better idea than any of those proposed.
- You want to campaign for your idea to make sure it gets enough votes to win.

Thanks for your participation in CLUE!
Dave