[541] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
About the mit-talk and housing-talk mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri May 4 16:21:34 2001
Message-Id: <200105042021.QAA25833@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU, housing-talk@MIT.EDU
Reply-to: talk-request@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 16:21:16 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
So the discussion on this list has definitely wandered far beyond the
list's original mission as I understand it. Some people have
complained, but others seem to appreciate the change. As such, your
friendly local list administrators would like to democratically
determine what the current community sees as the purpose of mit-talk,
and make any necessary changes to the *-talk lists to accommodate this.
In other words, I'm taking a survey. But don't worry, it's short.
Even just yes/no answers would be very helpful, but comments and
explanations are encouraged. I'll wait a day or two for responses to
roll in, and then summarize the results and make an announcement or
something.
The Reply-to: field in this message has been set to talk-request to
prevent the lists themselves from being spammed by replies.
Thanks!
Beland
for talk-request
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1.) Do/would you subscribe to mit-talk to get news about MIT?
1b.) Do you think there should be a separate mailing list for MIT news
only (e.g. mit-news)?
1c.) Do you think there should be a separate mailing list for
non-MIT-specific news?
2.) Do/would you subscribe to mit-talk to get event announcements?
2b.) Do you think there should be a separate mailing list for event
announcements? How should e-mail be used given the existence of
http://events.mit.edu?
3.) Do/would you subscribe to mit-talk to listen to chatter and
debate?
3b.) If so, do you think the current conversation covers topics you'd
rather not hear about, or do you think it is useful or interesting?
3c.) Do you think we should officially open mit-talk to conversations
on all topics, and create a separate mailing list for MIT policy
chatter (e.g. mit-policy) or something akin to that?
4.) Should we merge housing-talk into mit-talk (or mit-policy) since
people seem to be using mit-talk instead to talk about housing issues?
5.) Do you have any other ideas or comments?
6.) Would you like to become one of the volunteer list maintainers?
The job is pretty low-key, and mostly entails tracking down bouncing
addresses and fixing or removing them, adding and removing people who
can't do it themselves, and occasionally reminding people about
community standards for posting are (mainly dealing with spam, being
on-topic if the community has set one, and not sending add/remove
requests to the list itself). If you are ambitious, you can even do
surveys like this one.
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