Re: [seul-edu] Re: [schoolforge] reply to Thank you and plans

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

As for populating the list, it would be great to make sure that all core 
members are on the discuss list as well.

David

On Monday 14 January 2002 19:45, Doug Loss wrote:
> Roger Dingledine wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:40:32AM -0500, Doug Loss wrote:
> > > I think a general Schoolforge
> > > discussion list is an important idea.  It wouldn't be this "core" list,
> > > though; this list will stay an an organizational and managerial one.
> >
> > Ok. I've created a schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net mailing list.
>
> Now the big question is how do we populate this list?  Should we
> automatically subscribe the members of seul-edu and any other general
> educational discussion lists, or should we wait for people to join on their
> own?  I'm CCing this to the seul-edu list so that the subscribers there can
> put in their opinions on the question.  I lean toward announcing the
> intention to subscribe the entire membership of a given list (on that list)
> along with giving instructions on how to remove yourself from the new list,
> and then allowing a suitable time for comments and complaints before
> deciding to mass-subscribe the members to the new list or not do so. 
> seul-edu subscribers, consider this the announcement I've mentioned above;
> let me know what you think.
>
> As general information, I think the new schoolforge-discuss mailing list
> should be the place for general discussion on the use of free/open
> resources in schools, while the seul-edu list should become one for
> SEUL/edu specific discussions only.  I expect that such a change, if made,
> would mean the seul-edu mailing list would get much less traffic than it
> currently does while the schoolforge-discuss list will pick up greatly.