Archiving the SCN list

[Michael Hanson]

  A couple of problems with making a public archive of SCN list:
Spam -
  Discussions that are echoed to fora or web pages stifle discussion
because users must engage their anti-spam measures before posting, or
forgo posting to avoid spam.  
  The archive software should obey directives like X-No-Archive: Yes

Duplicate postings - 
  In the past, we have discouraged people from cross-posting to SCN
as well as committee lists.  Everyone who is on a committee list is
supposed to be on SCN.  So that means that members of the committee
get everything twice.  (This is even more of a bother if things are
cross-posted between several commitees - getting 3-4 copies of each
message makes it much harder to follow the discussion).
  Instead of encouraging CC'ing, perhaps users of the committee lists
should be encouraged to move discussions of general interest to the
SCN list, or to post a pointer on SCN telling people that this
discussion is occuring on such and such a list.



On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:49:21 -0800 (PST), Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org> wrote:
>SCN list members, 
>
>   We've been having a discussion over on the services mailing
>list about a number of things, such as how much we should try to
>grow SCN this year, and if so how.
>
>   The various SCNA mailing lists are where many things get
>discussed and decided about running SCN. But no one subscribes
>to all 23 of the lists, or probably even to most of them. As a
>consequence, SCN's organizational memory of its discussions has
>become scattered and disconnected, with many people not knowing
>or remembering, or having any way to find out, what many of the
>people whose views and plans are important to SCN are talking
>about on the rest of the 23 mailing lists.
>
>   So we'd like to start echoing or copying some of the messages
>that may be of general interest from other lists to this list,
>scn at scn.org. And also start making a daily archive of messages
>that are sent to this list, that would be readable from a Web
>page. For an example of something like this, that an Information
>Provider uses, see
>
>        http://www.scn.org/ip/nwqrp/nwq-l
>
>   This is an attempt to do two things. First, to encourage
>posting or re-posting messages that are of general interest to
>SCNA members, volunteers and users in a central place that
>everyone knows about, and that everyone can read and contribute
>to (by clicking on a mailto link on the list's archive Web page,
>for people who aren't actually subscribed to the list). And
>second, to encourage having more of an organizational memory in
>some coherent form.
>
>   So if you've felt comfortable tossing out ideas here to a few
>dozen people in the past, but wouldn't be comfortable talking to
>a much wider potential audience, please consider making some
>posts on the committee mailing lists, and other posts here that
>you think would be apprpriate for this more general list. We
>haven't started archiving the list yet, and are still talking
>about when to do it.
>
>        http://www.scn.org/help/scnlists.html
>
>Rod Clark
>
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