Hi Horse & Squad,
After reading Diana's message about splitting the list and your rules,
Horse, I am pretty satisfied that this will work.
The rules for the open list don't seem too restrictive to me. We can post
more than one message a day so long as they are on different topics. We can
start a thread on a new topic at any time. We are asked to be courteous and
only post on topics that in some way relate to the MOQ. This all sounds
pretty reasonable to me.
I don't have any problem with splitting the list into 2 parts either.
Nowhere does it say you can't be a member of both lists. I think the need
for the closed list is more
for reasons of courtesy and thoughtfulness than anything else. When I write
a message to the squad it's hard to remember that not everyone uses
Microsoft Outlook for their mail client, that everyone doesn't have space to
save every message written since the beginning of time, or that some people
can only view ascii text and can't handle attachments. For instance, the
other day we learned that Bodvar has to print out every message he reads,
and that Donny is using a mainframe (poor Donny!) and if he doesn't read his
mail as soon as it comes in he's in danger of loosing it completely when
it's overwritten on a circular save buffer. I have problems of my own too.
My email client doesn't automatically put those > characters in front of
quoted lines. I think it was Bodvar who asked us all to do that. It's kind
of tedious, but I'll try. These are real problems people have that we may
not always remember when we hit the send button.
I think splitting the list solves those problems. If you only have time,
space, or paper to read a few messages a day, you will appreciate a closed
list. I don't think it means that all the people who choose to be only on
the closed list are elitist, I think it means that they either don't have
the resources (time or computer) to read a whole lot of mail or that they're
not really interested in reading a whole lot of stuff that doesn't pertain
to the specific topic they are working on. Lack of interest doesn't mean
you're an elitist does it? Nobody reads every article in the newspaper.
That doesn't mean the newspaper is without value. In my mind, the closed
list would be something like a clipping service, and better a clipping
service for those that need it than censoring the whole newspaper for
everybody!
Just my 2 cents,
Mary
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