I second this idea. <div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>mac<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jason Kelly <<a href="mailto:jasonk@mit.edu">jasonk@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I'd like to propose a merging of the discuss@oww and sc@oww lists.<br>
Most of the emails on the SC list aren't exclusively "SC business"<br>
(whatever that means), and I think having the multiple lists prevents<br>
new OWW users who only sign up for the discuss list from finding out<br>
what's going on in the OWW community (since most of that comes up on<br>
SC list). For instance, recent emails from Dan to the discuss list<br>
saying he didn't know about SC meeting details.<br>
<br>
The SC list has 47 members. The discuss list has 65 members. There<br>
are 18 people that are on SC list but not on the discuss list, so we'd<br>
merge them into discuss. (Thanks ilya for stats)<br>
<br>
Alternatively, we can be more diligent about emailing<br>
community-related things to the discuss list, but it just seems easier<br>
to merge. If the traffic gets too bad we could always start an<br>
"announce" list or a list for a particular subtopic that had lots of<br>
traffic.<br>
<br>
What do people think?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
jason<br>
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