Re: EFES: About EFES mailing list

[Jock Coats <jock.coats@oxfordshirecommunitylandtrusts.org.uk>]

To be fair, Erkki, an email discussion list is what I thought I had 
joined, like several others at COG that I subscribe to.  I just thought 
it was comparatively quiet compared with the US based discussions at 
COG.

Anyway, to Dan, it seems clear to me that lots of people don't actually 
understand the concept.  Perhaps it would calm things down a little if 
you could set the "reply-to" setting in the Majordomo settings to 
"originator" rather than "list" or however it is that majordomo does 
it, then people would need to think and positively decide to reply to 
the list but would default to replying to the sender of the message and 
we wouldn't get to see all these messages?  For a while at least, until 
enough people get into discussions such that this setting becomes more 
annoying then receiving administravia to the list, hopefully!

I don't know of course your level of expertise, but can help if you 
like - we use Majordomo here and I am reasonably confident with its 
commands and so on.

Sincerely,

Jock

On 21 Feb 2005, at 10:17, Erkki K Kangas wrote:

> Here's some basic points:
>
> We are receiving these messages because EFES is trying to start a 
> mailing list. That means when I have a question, suggestion, proposal, 
> whatever about Employee Ownership, I send a message to 
> efes@cog.kent.edu and everybody on that subscribtion list reveives 
> that message. And everybody can answer, argue, whatever, my proposal. 
> It's an old kind of email conversation.
>
> The point is that I don't even have to know all of you, but am able to 
> consult anyone who wishes/can to contribute.
>
> But as the EFES list is basically subscription list, only those who 
> wish to do so, receive the messages. Unsubscribing is pretty simple as 
> Jock Coats pointed out. The problem here is that EFES started this 
> without asking our permission to add us to the list.
>
> Perhaps it is time to start a discussion forum on the net. Something 
> like this: http://www.freewayforum.com/forum/index.php
>
> These forums are very easy to set up and maintain. And the software 
> used is free.
>
> One can even create areas of the forum for only EFES members and some 
> areas that are open to all.
>
> The main point being that one doesn't get extra email messages and can 
> browse/participate in the forum on our own pace.
>
> Erkki K Kangas
>
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