Date   : Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:14:52 +0000
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: Who the message is from...

Mark McDougall wrote:
>
> I am currently subscribed to no less than 22 mailing lists, and this is the
> _only_ list that is configured this way, and the _only_ list that has this
> question raised over and over and over again.
>
> Unfortuately, as someone else stated, this is a dictatorship, not a
> democracy, and one stick-in-the-mud has thus far stubbonly resisted - for
> whatever reason - any and all calls (no matter how numerous) to have it
> brought in line with pretty much every other mailing list on the planet. And
> I have not read _one_ single good reason to leave it this way (note: I have
> read reasons, but no _good/sensible_ reasons). But I, like others, have no
> choice but to suck it if I want to be part of the BBC online community.
>
> And as much as I hate it, I agree that it would be counter-productive to
> start another list, as I suspect it would do nothing but divide the BBC
> community.
>
>   
Would that really be the case?

If the majority view is that the current mailing list doesn't meet most 
peoples needs, wouldn't most people move to a new list that did?

One other option would be to cross-subscribe the two lists, so that any 
postings sent to the new list were forwarded to the old list, and any 
sent to the old list appeared on the new list.

I think that somehow we need to get a poll of what people want, but I 
don't know the best way to set such a poll up.

If people want a new list, I'm happy to set one up, I have unlimited 
free mailing lists with my Web hosting, and, being based on the standard 
modern list software, they should behave the same as all other modern 
mailing lists.

Regards

Michael