[tdwg-phylo] TDWG mailing list consolidation

[Hilmar Lapp]

Markus and Lee -

I understand that there are lumpers and splitters in mailing list  
design as much as in taxonomy. Similarly, there are benefits and  
disadvantages to either.

We feel that we want to retain a mailing list that is the home for  
communication of business of the Phylogenetic Standards Interest  
Group, and where users know that traffic will be related only to that.  
That allows everyone to use their email filters to the best extent,  
and to selectively subscribe to the traffic they want to subscribe to.

If you insist on merging or shutting down our mailing list against our  
declared will, we will move our business to a Google group.

I then also suggest that we have a public session at the TDWG  
conference devoted to discussing this kind of unilateral decision  
making over the heads of TDWG's interest group conveners. This is the  
first time ever as a IG convener hear about this. I was under the  
impression that TDWG as an organization is committed to support and  
empower their interest groups. What you are proposing here, and the  
style of decision making and communication is the exact opposite of  
that.

	-hilmar

On Sep 8, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Markus Döring (GBIF) wrote:

> Dear members of the TDWG mailing list tdwg-phylo,
>
> TDWG has seen a proliferation of mailing lists over the years, most  
> of which
> are inactive today. Traffic on most lists is rather little and usually
> limited to only a short period of time. As most lists also have very  
> much
> the same subscribers, we are seeking to merge lists into just a few  
> ones.
> The main 3 mailing lists we want to maintain in the future being:
>
> tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
> A list with very low traffic for official TDWG  announcements from  
> the executive committee
> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg
>
> tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> A list for all non technical discussions covering all TDWG working  
> groups /
> standards http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
>
> tdwg-tag at lists.tdwg.org
> The technical architecture group list that will host discussions  
> about the
> technical details of standards
> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag
>
>
> Within the next days we will automatically add all subscribers of  
> this list to tdwg and tdwg-content and will merge all existing  
> archives of the mailing list tdwg-phylo into tdwg-content. The list  
> tdwg-phylo will be closed and removed once the archives have been  
> merged.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Markus Döring
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> tdwg-phylo at lists.tdwg.org
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