[MF] the way forward for MoQ discussion lists

[Horse]

Hi Folks

I've been a bit busy of late getting the MD list up and running properly, fiddling with site 
pages etc. - hence the lack of contact. 

My take on our current position re: where do we go from here:

The original idea of getting a number of lists up and running, dealing with general areas 
of discussion, has had some initial support but without others to help in running them 
this won't happen. Also, I think that trying to get members to post to the relevant list 
would be an uphill struggle. I'm not opposed to setting up lists if someone volunteers to 
run it, but it will have to be managed properly and not end up as another general 
purpose list - i.e. MD MkII.

Spawning huge numbers of mailing lists and seeing which survive is impractical, time 
consuming and, IMO, ultimately pointless. It'll end up as a big mess.

Sending out all posts received in one day in a single hit and limiting the number of posts 
allowed is similarly pointless. Restricting the number of posts that members can send in 
daily won't work on a voluntary basis - it hasn't in the past and I can't see it happening in 
the future. And I'm not prepared to spend half my life either nagging people to limit their 
output or moderating individuals who ignore my requests. If you want to read posts at a 
particular time then the easiest means of achieving this is to filter off all MD/MF posts 
into separate mailboxes and read them when you feel like it.

Given the above, it looks like the way forward will be to continue with MD as it is and 
introduce a bulletin board forum. I took a look at the forum that Gert-Jan set up and 
thought that it looked pretty good - thanks G-J. It's the sort of thing that I wanted to set 
up some time (years) back but the facilities weren't available. Fortunately they are 
available now. Additionally, once I get a bit of time, I'll also set up a WIKI - probably from 
the moqtalk domain.
I'm not entirely sure what to do about MF as it will probably become irrelevant with the 
setup outlined above but I'm not opposed to keeping it going if there's a good use to 
which it can be put.

The above isn't set in stone so if you have comments to make then please feel free to do 
so - but please do try to be constructive. 

Thoughts?


Horse



On 7 Dec 2005 at 17:19, Kevin Perez wrote:

> Thanks for asking Sam.
> 
> The decision belongs to Horse doesn't it?  Or is Horse
> waiting for some response 
> from us?
> 
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sam Norton" <elizaphanian at kohath.wanadoo.co.uk>
> To: <moq_focus at moqtalk.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [MF] the way forward for MoQ discussion
> lists
> 
> 
> > So - have we gotten anywhere? Anything going to
> happen?
> >
> >
> > Sam