[Dspace-general] Do we want to shut down this list?

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Mark,

It's true that folks often mistake dspace-general for a technical 
discussion list and
have to be re-routed, but the purpose of dspace-general hasn't changed, 
nor is it
superceded by the other listsl. It was created to discuss "non-technical 
aspects
of building and running a DSpace service" such as governance, policies, 
marketing,
new features, relevant regulations or laws, and so on. MIT and other 
institutions
rely on it as a forum for general announcements about the platform and 
its uses.

FYI, dspace-general has 946 subscribers while dspace-tech has 818, and they
don't overlap that much. I think we need to keep dspace-general for now, 
and
live with the fact that a lot of the traffic should have gone to 
dspace-tech...
if it gets too annoying to the subscribers I'm sure they'll let us know :)

MacKenzie

> Hello,
>
> We really should consider routing all traffic from this list to  
> dspace-tech and shutting it down. All current discussions about  
> DSpace should probibly be centralized under the same archiving/ 
> mailman service that resides under the umbrella of the new  
> Organization. This probably would more appropriately be the  
> Sourceforge mail list system. This list could be easily merged into  
> dspace-tech without impacting much as neither lists have heavy activity.
>
> -Mark
>
> Mark R. Diggory
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> DSpace Systems Manager
> MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology


-- 
MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries