Date   : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:09:22 +0000
From   : darren.grant@... (Darren Grant)
Subject: Mailing list

On 13 Nov 2009, at 01:50, Rick Murray wrote:

> How do you propose to move without starting and migrating? The first 
> step has to happen at some stage, surely?

I think Peter (samwise) already put it much better and calmer than I could.
If there is a general consensus that the reply-to issue is enough to make
people want to start a new list then it needs to be in a managed way.

The worst possible scenario is for the community to end up being divided 
by the existence of more than one list as we are already a very small group 
and the small size I feel works well as unlike many mailing lists this one 
doesn't seem to suffer the classic mailing list cycle of  growing to the 
point where flame wars start and then people leaving and killing off the
list. We seem like quite a friendly bunch that even tolerate a lot of strictly
off topic conversations on subjects such as RM systems etc.

I think that greater effort needs to go into resolving the situation properly, 
it seems there are some issues at the moment contacting James but that doesn't 
mean it is impossible, it might be possible that he can be contacted and
the whole thing can be resolved with a few seconds of his time to change
the setting before trying to start a list coup.

To be honest I think the thing that annoys me most is that I got drawn into 
it when really It is not such a big issue but it seems to have got a lot 
of attention and I find myself perpetuating that. If the list moves I think
just setting up alternatives and seeing who joins is not the answer, ideally
we would move lock stock and barrel.

Perhaps I'll call my list coup d'?tat, what will people call their lists
I wonder ?

Darren