[Sigia-l] sigia-l listserver

Ed Housman em_housman at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 4 16:12:46 EST 2011


Dick:

The list is on the track, but to be effective it should be weeded down to a few 
vital rules, and a well-stated objective.  Of course it must be friendly and 
welcoming.  Should maybe give a little history, and who's behind it all.

--Ed



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From: Richard Hill <rhill at asis.org>
To: Eric Reiss <er at fatdux.com>; Ed Housman <em_housman at yahoo.com>
Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 1:22:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] sigia-l listserver

Below is the welcome message sent to all who join the list.  May need to be
updated.  Suggestions welcome.

As sole moderator, I do not have time to closely follow every message, so I
have normally reacted to complaints.

Dick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
> Of Eric Reiss
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:58 AM
> To: Ed Housman
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] sigia-l listserver
> 
> Actually, Ed, it's older than that - April 2000 to be more precise. More
> like 11 years.
> 
> But yes. Let's do a little housekeeping and see if we can't rejuvenate
> this
> list.
> 
> Question: do we need a more formalized mission statement? Or a code of
> conduct?
> 
> Not to drown us in rules and regs, but a statement of purpose might be
> very
> useful, particularly considering that there are a couple of similar lists
> in
> cyberspace. What is our "market position"? What need do we fulfill that
> isn't currently being served by anyone else?
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> Eric Reiss
> CEO
> The FatDUX Group
> Copenhagen, Denmark
> http://www.fatdux.com
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> 
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Ed Housman <em_housman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is Ed Housman, one of the founders of SIGIA-L.  That was 8 or 9
> years
> > ago,
> > and as time ticks on things (and people) start getting crotchety and
> lose
> > the
> > uumph they had in their youth.  It was a successful experiment but it
> > appears
> > it's getting abused and diluted.
> >
> > I am retired now, and just keep an eye on the action.  Rarely post
> > anything.
> >  But I wonder whether we should move to some more modern social
> interaction
> > medium, Facebook, for example.  That might be dangerous though because
> of
> > the
> > huge number of curious visitors that could further dilute and sidetrack
> the
> > conversation.  Perhaps it's best to do a little housecleaning and
> > rule-changing
> > -- and keep our little private space going.
> >
> > --Ed
> >
> >
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