Re: [ICANN-EU] MEMO requesting discussion: Structuring a large ML

["Constantine S. Chassapis" <cschassapis@acm.org>]

From: Adrian Suter <adrian.lists@wortrei.ch>
To: <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] MEMO requesting discussion: Structuring a large ML


> At 00:53 20.08.00 +0300, Constantine S. Chassapis wrote:
>
> >SELF-ORGANIZATION AND READABILITY
> >OF A LARGE MESSAGE LIST
> >
> >By Constantine Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
> >
> >Version 0.1 of August 19, 2000;
> >Submitted to icann-europe@fitug.de ML.
> >
> >
> >This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices
> >for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and
> >suggestions for improvements.

This is not my wording. I took it as proposed in RFC2223, because
I had to orient the possible readers.

>
> Above all, this is not true. This memo does not even specify a "current
> practice", and I doubt very much about the "best".
>
> [SUM-UP, COLLECTION etc.]
>
> It just won't work.
>
> If you want to make it work, you have to set up two mailing lists: one for
> announcements (which would be: articles to start a thread, sum-ups and
> collections) and one for discussions. The first ML should be moderated.
The
> second should be a subscriber of the first one, thus allowing people to
> subscribe to only one of the two. If they see something on the
> announcements-list, they can subscribe the discussion-list and follow that
> particular thread. Others can always participate in discussions, and
others
> again might prefer to read only the sum-ups.
>
> That system could work, but newsgroups might be much more approproiate for
> such an approach.

This suggestion of yours is very interesting. My original intention though
was
to keep pre-structure at an absolute minimum and concentrate on
message content and members involvement. That is, if the members of a list
would like their large (dont forget that) list to really work, they must
work!
I did not wanted to impose anything, no moderation, no hierarchy, no pre-
selected articles from authorities.

This comment of yours about my memo, is the first received and I really
thank
you for that Adrian.

Sincerely,
Constantine Chassapis