Re: Students for Individual Liberty Constitution
Daniel C. Burton (dan@autobahn.org)
25 Mar 1998 02:15:52 GMT
I was thinking of just adding everyone to every e-mail list if they said
yes, they wanted information on other libertarian organizations.... Our
e-mail list is just an announcement list, not a discussion list, and I
imagine all the other ones would be held up to the same standard. We never
post the insignificant stuff you're talking about. That is always kept to
ourselves at in-person meetings.
I would be for your scheme, except for one problem: What do you do with
people who say they don't want information about other clubs? If you post
things about important events to only the main list, they won't get it, and
if you post it to both the main list and the individual list, everyone else
will get it twice.
Wait! Here's an idea. We have one main list. Then for each group we have
one list for everyone, and one for the people not on the main list. Each
list in the latter category will actually have the main list on it, the
idea being that you never post to the main list, just these individual
lists, and then they forward to both the main list and the people who
aren't on the main list.
So let's say something like this:
cal-libertarians -- normal list for internal stuff
cal-libertarians-global -- global announcements for people only on
cal-libertarians
bk-liberty -- Berkeley Liberty Coalition list, for all affiliated groups.
Gets mail from all the "global" lists.
So it looks like we could do this fairly easily, but I disagree with you on
what should go out to everyone. I think everyone should hear about weekly
discussion topics and things like that, all real activities except for
administrative stuff.
Kevin Dempsey Peterson <peterson@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in article
<Pine.SOL.3.96.980323173052.4869B-100000@apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>...
>
> Just a suggestion on managing the membership for multiple groups. I'd
> recommend having one list for each group, then a big list for all the
> groups. All the information would be sent out to people who were
> members of the group, (e.g. if I join the Bureaucratic Order of
> Individualists, I'd get a reminder for every one of their meetings, and
> any other important news). Important stuff, like major speakers, should
> go to everyone, no matter which sect of the conspiracy they belong to
> (e.g. if Cal Libs hosts someone who is currently running for senetor in
> CA, then mail should be sent to the Objectivists, the ANarchists, and
> the Ideological Libertarians as well) . Minor stuff should be kept
> within the group (e.g. if I'm only in the Objectivist group, I don't
> really care that Starchild is coming by to talk about internal party
> politics).