[OWW-SC] [OWW-Discuss] merge discuss and sc list?

[Bill F]

Destructive progress. It works for me...

B.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Mackenzie Cowell <macowell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I second this idea.
> I was completely clueless about the discuss list until this afternoon,
> when austin made incidental comment about an email he had sent to it.  I
> don't think there is a good practical reason to keep them separated at this
> point.  We can always reestablish an SC list if there are lots of SC-only
> topics that would otherwise pollute the discuss list.
>
> mac
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'd like to propose a merging of the discuss at oww and sc at oww lists.
> > Most of the emails on the SC list aren't exclusively "SC business"
> > (whatever that means), and I think having the multiple lists prevents
> > new OWW users who only sign up for the discuss list from finding out
> > what's going on in the OWW community (since most of that comes up on
> > SC list). For instance, recent emails from Dan to the discuss list
> > saying he didn't know about SC meeting details.
> >
> > The SC list has 47 members.  The discuss list has 65 members.  There
> > are 18 people that are on SC list but not on the discuss list, so we'd
> > merge them into discuss.  (Thanks ilya for stats)
> >
> > Alternatively, we can be more diligent about emailing
> > community-related things to the discuss list, but it just seems easier
> > to merge.  If the traffic gets too bad we could always start an
> > "announce" list or a list for a particular subtopic that had lots of
> > traffic.
> >
> > What do people think?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jason
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>
>
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