[ALAC] Mailing list duplication

[Alan Greenberg]

You may well be right regarding Internet policy issues in general. 
But there will certainly be internal communications for 
administrative issues, or ongoing work on a statement being 
formulated or discussed that is targeted to a specific RALO).

And we need to remember that if a subscriber is flooded with mail 
that has no direct relevance to them, they may well just get off the 
list. So targeting is important.

Alan

At 07/08/2008 03:27 PM, Carlton Samuels wrote:
>Based on our mandate, I cannot think of any issue important to ALAC that
>would have a specificity of interest to just one RALO.
>
>This is not to say that every issue will resonate the same for every
>ALS.......or even RALO!
>
>Carlton
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>[mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:44 PM
>To: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>Subject: [ALAC] Mailing list duplication
>
>The ALAC and (presumably) the ALAC-Internal list includes the ALAC,
>RALO management and ICANN staff.
>
>The At-Large list is a self-selected list of people which (at the
>moment) includes all ALAC members, but not not several of the RALO people.
>
>The RALO lists include an unknown subset/superset of these same people.
>
>Somehow we need to rationalize this.
>
>Some questions that come to mind are:
>- Where do we want substantive discussions with users to take place.
>- Are ALAC and RALO people obliged to read the At-Large list and
>comment when appropriate.
>- Should the RALO lists be identified as being exclusively for issues
>that are relevant to that RALO only?
>
>Are there more question that we need to consider.? Are there any
>reasonable answers which will allow interaction with people outside
>of this lists's members, but will avoid needless cross posting?
>
>Alan
>
>PS The issue came up in my mind because I am about to post a message
>on the RAA and see no way to hit a reasonable cross-section of people
>without cross-posting.
>
>
>
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