New Discussion And Announcement Email Lists
The Web Committee is happy to announce that VFR has a new email list system that both replaces the Topica list and expands services.
After searching for the least objectionable choice, given the desire for a low maintenance system, the always looming budget considerations, and our feature requirements (most notably the ability to moderate the lists), we have set-up two moderated lists on Google Groups. One list is for announcements (announcements for the VFR community without cross-talk), and the other list is for discussion (cross-talking).
As with the Topica list you can have the emails delivered to you in a variety of ways: no email (read posts on the Web), abridged email (summary of activity), daily digest (all emails), and all individual emails. Plus, if you know how to, you can subscribe to the groups with an RSS reader (which would be particularly useful in the case of the announcement list).
Both lists are moderated by Bill Childs, the establishment of them being agreed upon during the February 2006 Board meeting. Ed Charla outlined the plan for two moderated list-serves during the meeting (the announcement and discussion lists), and the proposal was approved by a 10-2 vote. What moderation means is that you submit either a new topic thread or respond to an existing post (in the case of the discussion list), and Bill receives an email telling him a post is waiting to be moderated. I’m sure that as time goes on Bill will write about what that means: moderation.
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