Horace wrote,
So in order to correct the situation where Terria got into trouble, I
motion that subscription to the Discuss must be mandatory. In all
fairness, it must be done or else we will always have to go by private mail.
This would defeat the purpose of making NCGENWEB read-only and making the
-DISCUSS list the optional list to which CCs may subscribe or not, as they
choose.
If you have something that MUST reach all the CCs, then the appropriate
action is to contact Sharon and ask her to post it on NCGENWEB. Sharon
will then either post it, or will alert the entire readership that the
topic will be considered on NCGENWEB-DISCUSS.
Think about it. If NCGENWEB-DISCUSS were to be made mandatory, then there
would be no need for NCGENWEB-L. We would then be exactly back where we
started; complaints about irrelevant, heated, or otherwise unwanted posts
on the required list, a request to create yet another optional list
(NCGENWEB-DISCUSSAGAIN?), another round of complaints that not everyone's
voice is being heard which would then result in this list being made
mandatory, obviating the need for NCGENWEB-DISCUSS, and creating the need
for NCGENWEB-DISCUSS-STILLMORE, ad nauseum, ending finally in
NCGENWEB-DISCUSS-TERMINAL, at which point there would be no more CCs left,
all of us having left long since in frustration.
Elizabeth Harris
NCGenWeb project:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/
Winston-Salem NC area genealogy:
http://users.erols.com/fmoran/