ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings
a_reader2003
carolynwhite2 at a_reader2003.yahoo.invalid
Tue Jan 13 10:46:13 UTC 2004
--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "abigailnus" <abigailnus at y...>
wrote:
Quite
> simply, we'd like to open the list archives to non-members.
> Posting would still require joining the group, and new posters
> would still be moderated, but anyone would be able to read
> messages posted by members.
>
Carolyn:
A couple of thoughts on this, prompted by responses so far:
(1) If the main purpose is to attract in new, interested members, a
compromise could be to make a selection of past posts available for
general public consumption on our own site. These could be anonymous
if necessary, but mainly picked for their interesting ideas and good
posting style. Any casual browser who liked the tenor of the
discussion might then be encouraged to join the group.
(2) If the secondary purpose is to enable better searching of the
archive for list members through using Google technology, I'm hopeful
that we could achieve this another way through the indexing project
which I suggested way back at the start of this Feedback group (I
think it was post no 11 from memory). Kelley has been in touch with
me about this, and I have done quite a lot of work over the last week
on it which I hope to send to Kelley and the rest of the admin team
for review in the next week. It should enable people to find and
follow threads of discussion on all the topics we have discussed.
I must admit, having spent quite a lot of time recently speed-reading
through old emails, I think there is quite a lot of stuff on the list
which people might not necessarily want searchable by the whole wide
world ! Apart from anything else, in the early posts at least, there
is a lot of chat about the way the list works, who people really are
behind their aliases etc. I am only marking posts for inclusion in my
index which really discuss the contents of the books, which sometimes
represent only 1 in 10 of the posts put up.
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