[NCUC E-team] Mailing lists

[William Drake]

On Jan 21, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Wilson Abigaba <wilson at isoc.ug> wrote:

> Dear Tapani,
> 
> It appears that the lists archives are only available to the
> respective list members. Shouldn't they be public?

Yes the archives are supposed to be public and we decided that outsiders could post with moderator approval, but to join a list requires coordinator approval etc.
> 
> On another note, I was to join many of the lists even if I may not not
> actively participate in all of them. Would that be ok?

Yes I think it would be very helpful if EC members were subscribed to multiple team lists even if they can't be equally active in each.  I'm in all of them, for instance.  It would be good for EC members to know what's going on and when needed to be able to serve as a back and forth communication medium.

BD
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Wilson
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
> <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> As you no doubt have noticed, you've been subscribed to
>> this newly-created e-team mailing list.
>> The list currently lives on Effi's Mailman server;
>> this is a temporary arrangement decided on by a secret
>> inner circle, namely Bill, Wilson, Brenden and me. :-)
>> There's not much time left before LA so we felt we
>> need something *now*, and this was an easy way to do it.
>> 
>> Similar lists have been created for all teams.
>> The plan is to move the lists to our own server later,
>> which should be easy enough if we stick to Mailman.
>> 
>> While you all are obviously used to mailing lists,
>> one point is perhaps worth explaining:
>> 
>> Subdomain "lists.ncuc.org" was used instead of plain "ncuc.org",
>> because we might one day want to keep lists on a separate
>> machine (e.g., so that they'd go on working even when the
>> main machine is down) and we haven't decided how we
>> would want to use @ncuc.org addresses in general.
>> Also it is less confusing to use same domain in addresses
>> as in the web interface, and that can't be at ncuc.org
>> (at least not before we get rid of Ning).
>> 
>> It is of course possible to create @ncuc.org -aliases
>> for some (or even all) lists if desired, and it might
>> make some sense for some more public lists like the
>> planned members list, but I would suggest sticking
>> to @lists at least for the internal teams.
>> 
>> --
>> Tapani Tarvainen
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