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At 11:38 PM 5/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> What do you propose as a positive solution? And why the judgemental tone?

>As to why I have my own particular personality - well, go
>figure.
>

Tht's what I'm trying to do, figure out the reason you have a tone of
omniscience and finality in your pronouncements for what SCN should do and be.

>I propose re-inventing half a dozen mailing lists that would be
>places for people to stay generally informed about broad
>subject areas. 
>

Please elaborate. How would you propose this be done?


>The seventeenth one that you're missing is a new one, Planning.

Oops, you're right! And I'm part of the committee. 


>But if you've been following things, lots of the planning
>related duscussions have actually taken place in other venues
>than the erstwhile planning list, which basically goes to show
>that it's just another fragnmented, silly addition, that splits
>worthwhile conversations among yet more lists, so that people
>now have to subscribe to it as well as all the others. Pleh!
>

Perhaps they have taken place in other fora because the Planning list did
not exist. It is brand new.

>Planning decisions are important enough that they should involve
>widely distributed conversations, not tucked away among a small
>number of people on a specialized list. Lots of people should
>have a chance to contribute, and to stay up to date on that. 


If planning decisions are so important (as I agree they are) then why is the
topic unworthy of a mailing list. Rather than being "just another
fragnmented, silly addition"
I think it can help coalesce discussions that have been disjointed.

People can subscribe to as many or as few of the lists as they please. If
you can define a plan to pare them down well and effectively then bravo!
Have at it.

Andrew






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