[ICANN-EU] How the 3 lists work

["Cameron Smith" <cameron_smith@mail.com>]

I like Vittorio's clarification of the 3 lists, as pasted in at the bottom 
of this message.

Could I suggest, from prior experience, that the 'announcements' 
list (icann-news) also contains regular 'discussion summaries' of 
the main issues under debate on the other two lists.  Perhaps 
weekly or every two weeks.  

Preparing such summaries is a thankless task but it serves 3 very 
useful purposes:
a) New participants to the two 'discussion' lists can skim through 
the last few summaries on icann-news to get up to speed with 
current topics, before they jump into the main discussions (rather 
than having to read the previous 100 posts on the discussions).
b) Non-participants using the lists as an information source (such 
as journalists) can glance through the summaries to find what they 
need rather than trawling 100s of mails in the main discussions.
c) 'Low-level' participants (Otto Normaluser) can just get the icann-
news list.  If a topic they are personally interested in comes up in 
the summaries, they will be able to jump into the main discussions 
and participate more fully on that topic.  But most of the time they 
won't have to receive 20 mails a day that they don't read.

cameron smith

>From:           	Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>
> 
> So if I'm not wrong we should now have three lists:
> - icann-debate@lists.ccc.de for discussion related to specific ICANN
> issues and decisions (i.e. gTLDs...)
> - icann-news@lists.ccc.de for announcements (as a read-only list for
> members who are not interested in active discussion)
> - icann-europe@fitug.de for discussion related to self-organization of
> the At Large membership, creation of an At Large Forum, etc.
> 
> This is similar to what we were talking about in August, with the
> exception that, rather than a general discussion list on all issues,
> there was the idea that it would have been better to have separate
> lists on major items (i.e. one for gTLDs, one for UDRP and so on). But
> that could maybe happen when traffic increases.