[HCoop-Discuss] Openness of mailing lists (only archive last N days?)

[Davor Ocelic]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:37:54AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Adam Megacz wrote:
> > I'm just saying that it's a bit of a hassle to put every posting I
> > make through the mental filter of "gee, how will this response look to
> > people who know me ten years from now" -- in addition to the mostly
> > automatic "gee, how will this look to the message's intended audience"
> > filter.
> >   
> 
> The poll so far makes it clear that "close the list" is the majority 
> viewpoint, including among the board members.  So let me just suggest a 
> possibility based on this class of objection.
> 
> hcoop-sysadmin now is used for (or at least, in my assumptions, has been 
> intended to be used for) two classes of messages: architectural 
> discussions where we can clearly benefit from as broad participation as 
> possible, and short notes between admins coordinating work.  Would 
> everyone be happy with moving just the second class to a separate, 
> private list?
> 
> For the broad discussions, it's entirely possible that interested 
> parties outside the co-op could have valuable things to say.  Non-member 
> developers of software packages might even watch our lists to see if 
> they can get ideas for how to improve them.  We can probably all agree 
> that the second class has no such possibilities.

This will require people to be subscribed to two mailing lists.
This is unnecessary overcomplication of a very simple thing.

We should keep our technical matters for ourselves. No one will be
contributing to our open list, I can tell you that right away. And for
special people who do have an established name and a specific reason
to see our technical traffic (while not being members - which is silly),
we can always make special allowances.

But again if you just can't get over this (even after a poll), create
two mailing lists.

-doc