Gee. Picking a name was fun.
The topic had come up in a post by Richard about making our
mailing list public.
I suggest we do two things,
1. check that everyone is happy with the charter
2. cleanup the archives so the messages there are about astronomy
(or monty python)
And then check eveyone is cool with opening the list to all.
I'd like to suggest a way to do number 2 first.
Rather than delete all of the non-astronmical postings that we
make, every time some topic comes up that generates non-astronomical
discussion. I ...ahem... suggest we create a second group for
talking about how to run OAFs. Err. Let me know if you guys think
this is too complicated. But my suggestion is
a. create another group called, say "OAFs-voting"
b. make the charter something like:
"A list for discussing how to run OAFs. Any member of OAFs may
join this list. Any member of this list may start a poll
about how to run OAFs, provided they discuss it in postings
here first. Astronomical, observing and fun posts belong
in the OAFs list. All posting must be civil. They may also
be silly, if you feel like it."
c. move our non-astromomical postings from OAFs to OAFs-voting
I suggest this because its a way of having the discussions
we've has about list names, going public, and charters in a nice
place with no censorship and still keep the OAFs list about
astronomy. It would even give us a place to talk about now to
deal with other clubs, if we really had to.
Feel free to tell me this is too complicated. But if people agree,
i'd be happy to set up such a mailing list. (It's trivial.)
I hope that traffic on OAFs would always exceed traffic on
OAFs-voting.
If nothing else. It would relax the requirement to refer to
monty python in non-astromonical postings.
Oops. That means this posting. err..
"Tell me again how pigs bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes."
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