[OWW-Discuss] Fwd: merge discuss and sc list?

[Jason Kelly]

OK, that seems like consensus.  The lists have been merged (thanks
ilya).  Please just use discuss at openwetware.org from now on.

thanks,
jason


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lorrie LeJeune <moltogatti at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: [OWW-Discuss] merge discuss and sc list?
To: Jason Kelly <jrkelly at gmail.com>


I agree. There seems to be a lot of topical overlap, so a merged list
 will make it easier to follow the various discussion threads.
 --Lorrie



 On 2/13/08, 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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