> On 7 October 2012 22:33, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
>> Incoherent thoughts:

>> Yes, I agree that "org" is a difficult distinction to make, I don't
>> think we can successfully split that from everything else.

>> Getting job/skills offers off this list would be nice, but I suspect
>> splitting them out onto separate lists will simply kill their utility,
>> because nobody will subscribe. One possibility here is just to ban job
>> offers on the list outright. Another possibility is to condense all
>> these into a digest, and send that to everyone (basically what I'm
>> talking about is resurrecting the news email).

>> One possibility for "announce" is to have an email alias which
>> automatically goes to all subscribed members.

>> Russ

>> On 7 October 2012 21:06, Jasper Wallace <jas...@pointless.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Martin Dittus wrote:

>>>> Hey,

>>>> Do people think it would make sense to split this list? E.g.:
>>>> - lhs-org: anything relating to the space itself, the organisation, the tools, membership questions, etc
>>>> - lhs-discuss: member projects, requests for help/advice, chatter

>>> I've been on projects before where we've tried to do fine grained mailing
>>> lists and it hasn't really worked - people don't really understand which
>>> list they should post to and most things just end up on the main list.

>>> It does work (ish) if you have very specific lists I would suggest:

>>> ------------------------------------------------

>>> lhs-jobs:

>>> This list is for posting available jobs or people looking for work. If you
>>> are posting about a job please include:

>>> * Where it is.
>>> * When it will start and end.
>>> * Any compensation offered.
>>> * Technologies and skills desired.

>>> If you are looking for work please post:

>>> * Where you are prepared to travel to.
>>> * What your availability is.
>>> * Rates, if relevent
>>> * skills and links to testimonals and example projects that you have
>>>   completed in the past.

>>> ------------------------------------------------

>>> lhs-for-sale-or-swap:

>>> This list is for hackspace members to advertise items they wish to sell or
>>> dispose of, or to for people who are looking for particular items.

>>> ------------------------------------------------

>>> The reason for prefering a mailing list to the wiki is that mailing lists
>>> are more time orientated - the wiki tends to fill with out of date junk...

>>>> We started an infrastructure list a long time ago which is essentially
>>>> unused; maybe because it is a bit too specific, but also because we had
>>>> much less traffic on the main list back then.

>>> There's only a few people doing infrastructure stuff (mostly the kitchen)
>>> and they just meet face to face in the space afaict.

>>>> Otoh there's now much more project chatter and random discussion, and it
>>>> would be nice to give those discussions a bit more space.

>>> I think we need to be more disiplined about how we use the list, in
>>> particular:

>>> If you are asking for a show of interest in something ask people replying
>>> to reply directly to you rather than to the list - a "+1" sent to the list
>>> does NOT contain any useful information for the several thousand people
>>> who will read it!

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