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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