A solution for you

[Ivana Olson]

I would offer to start and moderate a yahoo group for the neighborhood 
personal and political discussions. I do have plenty of experience 
moderating large yahoo groups and I definately can provide references for 
that.

However, I don't think seperating the group is a good idea. First off, not 
everyone has or is willing to get a Yahoo account for the group. Second, I 
wouldn't want to be responsible for breaking up this listserv. We've tried 
moving conversations over to message boards, no one wanted to do it. I 
believe it was agreed that the familiarity of this format and the fact that 
it is delivered right to the e-mail was the key point in the list-serv's 
success.

Then again.. I would love to be able to discuss politics and personal events 
with other neighbors who would also be open to the idea without worrying 
about invading the policies of the GCNA or getting complaints from people 
who don't want my opinion.

Also, Yahoo groups do get delivered to your e-mail just like a list-serv and 
therefore could be delivered to the same inbox with a different subject line 
so you know which group it's from.

If anyone is interested in joining a new group, in addition to this group, 
where we can share things that would generally be frowned on in this group 
(like opinions on the new propositions for the upcoming ballot?)  I would be 
more than willing to start the group. I'll warn you ahead of time though, 
I'm a fair moderator and don't believe in censorship. My policy is pretty 
much to let the discussion go it's way until either I get a private 
complaint.. which I will then take care of the matter privately.. or if I 
decide the subject matter is too offensive (and really it's very hard to 
offend me).


-Ivana

----Original Message Follows----
From: Brig180 at aol.com
Reply-To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
Subject: A solution for you
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:21:17 EDT

Here's a possible solution to this idiotic and tiresome conflict:

Step one:  Reserve the existing listserv for official Association
communication and resident announcements specific to the neighborhood  
(events,
happenings, rental requests/announcements, etc.) with no  political or 
personal
discussions;

Step two:  Create a second listserv specifically for "neighborhood
discussions" of any sort.

Look, it's FREE and easy!  _http://groups.yahoo.com/start_
(http://groups.yahoo.com/start)    (No, I'm not going to do it.  I'm not 
interested in
moderating a  "bitchserv".)  Someone interested in "taking over" can put 
some of that
excess energy to productive use and set it up him or herself.

Or, of course, certain people could continue to endlessly bitch and  whine
about/on the existing listserv, hijacking it for their own  
self-aggrandizement
and soapboxing, which we can all agree serves no useful  purpose and drives
away people (OUR NEIGHBORS!) who would like to receive  news and event
information about THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

Darrin


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