[tdwg-phylo] TDWG mailing list consolidation
Hilmar Lapp
hlapp at nescent.org
Wed Sep 8 16:42:02 CEST 2010
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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