[Peace-discuss] Evaluating the listserv

[Karen Kohn]

Hi all.
I've been thinking for awhile about whether it would be possible to specify
certain kinds of things that shouldn't get posted.  In particular, I'd
rather that e-mails from MoveOn not get forwarded to the list.  I don't know
how many people are already on MoveOn's mailing list (I am), but really
anyone can subscribe to it if they want to get those e-mails.  Almost every
e-mail of theirs gets posted to peace-discuss, sometimes more than once, so
it's like duplicating a whole e-mail list.
Another thing I'd rather not see if ANSWER postings.  I know that sometimes
AWARE does co-ordinate with their events, like this weekend for example, but
most of the time it's not urgent to me to know what's going on in DC that I
can't easily participate in, and those postings are mainly announcements
without a lot of news content.
I don't mean to be targeting individuals who have posted these things in the
past.  They are certainly relevant to peace-discuss according to the current
posting guidelines.  But in light of Al's observation that the list traffic
is getting very high, I thought I'd suggest these two things we could
possibly cut out.
I'm curious to hear what others think.  I really like the forwarded
articles, so that's not what I'd suggest cutting, but I don't know how you
all feel.
Karen