[ALAC] Mailing list duplication

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

ALAC - list for ALAC to do work in public.
At Large - list for all people interested in At Large issues to talk 
amongst themselves and with ALAC
That's my take on it...
Jacqueline
Thompson, Darlene wrote:
> Well, and now after my last e-mail, I'm disagreeing with myself.  We
> have ALAC Announce for announcements.  So what is the difference between
> ALAC and At-Large?  No idea whatsoever.  Dang!
>
> D
>
> Darlene A. Thompson
> Community Access Program Administrator
> Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> [mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan
> Greenberg
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:46 PM
> To: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [ALAC] Mailing list duplication
>
> 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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