What's the "C" for again?

[Randy Groves]

This is the only message I will post to the collected lists above - I am
getting multiple posts, and I'm sure that others are as well.  What should
be the appropriate forum for this discussion?

Rod - I disagree as to the desire about opening up discussions.  We've been
too cautious I think, partly from a desire to be able to control the
situation if it DID get out of hand (how do you remove a 'harrassing'
poster if you don't have any control over their account, or even from
whence they come?).  We have discussed allowing the forums on the web, but
only if people signed up.  This is an option.  Or do we just set up the
forums, and if they get out of control, remove them?

At this point, I favor the latter course.  Presume from the beginning that
people will be civil.  There are some valid objections from others on the
board as to this course of action.  But I think that the experience with
the limited test that we have run indicates to me that we are perhaps more
concerned than we ought to be.

I presume you are talking about WWWBoard or something similar.

I propose that an agenda item at the next board meeting that we finally
implement freely accessible discussion groups on SCN.

-randy

At 02:47 PM 8/12/98 -0700, Rod Clark wrote:
>Bill S wrote:
>> I'm not going to move it there but might suggest that this discussion and
>> the overall Freenet situation discussion might be moved to the scn.ideas
>> forum so more people would be able to contribute. Anyone else in favor of
>> that ?
>
>Bill, 
>
>   No, because the scn.ideas forum is still a comparatively
>inaccessible place to post messages, because no one can post a
>message there without first obtaining a registered SCN user ID (a
>small fraction of interested local residents), and then still can't
>post messages except when dialed in to SCN's phone line or telnet
>address.
>
>   Many more people would find it easier to participate if mailing
>lists like this one (scn at scn.org) and CPSR's local-computer-activists
>were mirrored on the Web, so that interested people all over the
>Seattle area could click a mailto link to send a message to the list.
>We have the technical means to do that. It could be set up tomorrow
>if people wanted to do it. But so far, I'm not at all sure that
>anyone in SCN's leadership has a real desire to open up the
>discussions more widely than among the few people who are now
>subscribed to the lists.
>
>Rod Clark
>bb615 at scn.org
>
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