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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi Mark,<BR>
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I entirely support MacKenzie on this. There are many subscribers to dspace-general (myself included) whose interest is in the less technical aspects of DSpace's use and development. I also scan dspace-tech - and dspace-devel - to improve my awareness of what's going on, but the stuff that's really relevant to me is almost invariably in dspace-general. Merging two strands in a single list would, I suspect, annoy more people than it would help.<BR>
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Perhaps an occasional (quarterly?) reminder to each list from the listowner reiterating its role would be helpful in channelling messages to the correct list.<BR>
<BR>
Peter<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: dspace-general-bounces@mit.edu on behalf of MacKenzie Smith<BR>
Sent: Sun 11/26/2006 11:56 PM<BR>
To: Mark Diggory<BR>
Cc: dspace-general@mit.edu<BR>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Do we want to shut down this list?<BR>
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Hi Mark,<BR>
<BR>
It's true that folks often mistake dspace-general for a technical<BR>
discussion list and<BR>
have to be re-routed, but the purpose of dspace-general hasn't changed,<BR>
nor is it<BR>
superceded by the other listsl. It was created to discuss "non-technical<BR>
aspects<BR>
of building and running a DSpace service" such as governance, policies,<BR>
marketing,<BR>
new features, relevant regulations or laws, and so on. MIT and other<BR>
institutions<BR>
rely on it as a forum for general announcements about the platform and<BR>
its uses.<BR>
<BR>
FYI, dspace-general has 946 subscribers while dspace-tech has 818, and they<BR>
don't overlap that much. I think we need to keep dspace-general for now,<BR>
and<BR>
live with the fact that a lot of the traffic should have gone to<BR>
dspace-tech...<BR>
if it gets too annoying to the subscribers I'm sure they'll let us know :)<BR>
<BR>
MacKenzie<BR>
<BR>
> Hello,<BR>
><BR>
> We really should consider routing all traffic from this list to <BR>
> dspace-tech and shutting it down. All current discussions about <BR>
> DSpace should probibly be centralized under the same archiving/<BR>
> mailman service that resides under the umbrella of the new <BR>
> Organization. This probably would more appropriately be the <BR>
> Sourceforge mail list system. This list could be easily merged into <BR>
> dspace-tech without impacting much as neither lists have heavy activity.<BR>
><BR>
> -Mark<BR>
><BR>
> Mark R. Diggory<BR>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>
> DSpace Systems Manager<BR>
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services<BR>
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
--<BR>
MacKenzie Smith<BR>
MIT Libraries<BR>
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