[WSIS CS-Plenary] Minimising use of these lists

[Amali De Silva]

It is true that all of us deal with hundreds of
e-mails a day. 

However, this is a forum for discussion. We are able
to be priviy to information, insights, viewpoints of
our many members which is important to enable us to
come to conclusion via a democratic process. 

When significant issues are being discussed we require
opinion and yes on occaision the list can get busy.
However, having participated on this list since PC1,
really, the truth of it is that it gets busy from time
to time only!

A democratic process requires discussion otherwise the
 process is lost and we loose our legitimacy. Please,
don't think there is no backroom chat going on ! I
refer to point (3). The list is reasonably well
behaved actually.

For you on a personal note - can you perhaps use some
personal filters ? ( in sympathy with your request )
Anybody who can come up with some good suggestions on
this one ?

Amali De Silva-Mitchell, VP-VCN, Canada 


--- R.Correia at ru.ac.za wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> We are all very busy people with work priorities. It
> is thus essential that we 
> use lists to communicate on WSIS issues for serious
> dialogue. It is frustrating 
> to open an email with a subject line that you feel
> is important to you, only to 
> find that it is "where do i subscribe" or a short
> reply from Joe Soap to John 
> Smith, saying "Yes, I fully support that". It is
> plainly meaningless and a 
> waste of resources.
> 
> Can we:
> 
> 1. Have the list such that it accpets postings only
> from subscribed members
> 2. Subscription mechanisms and information on the
> use of the lists be put up on 
> the web. Any queries to the list by non-members
> would receive a reply 
> containing this information
> 3. where it is a direct reply to another person
> without any bearing to the rest 
> of subscribers, we write to that person
> individually?  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rui Correia
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