ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings

[neith_seshat]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.

I'm with you and Oryomai on that one. I think there are many posts 
that represent clearly the style and purpose of this group, and once 
shown can help possible new members to decide. I would suggest that 
some of the essays (Fantastic posts, or Penny's, to mention a few) 
could be also displayed.

> (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 would like to know more about this; sounds really interesting.


 
> 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!

Nuff said!


Hope it helps,


Neith