[16541] in APO-L
Re: List recognition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Mon Apr 7 13:35:32 1997
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:35:38 -0400
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
At 12:16 PM 4/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>How does one go about petetion to get a list,
>like the alumni list, to be recognized on a National
>level? Also, the alumni list has been seeing very
>few posts lately. Never having seen a workshop on how
>to run an effective list server or web sight, this confused
>alumnus of Chi Pi has the following questions for you all:
>
>1) What makes an effective/useful list-server?
Having a group of people that feel they have a reason to exchange info that
isn't adequately handles in other forums. In the case of the apo-alumni
list, the question is what do APO alumni want to discuss that they aren't
already discussion or can't discuss on APO-L & APOSOC-L.
>2) What actions can an admin take to encourage posting?
Post things starting the kind of
>3) How does one go about getting a list server "official"
>recognition and PR?
There are *NO* offical APO email lists recognized National. As for
publicity for the list, you can talk to Pat Burke, mrn Tomusiak (PR), or
Bobby Hainline (alumni) about where in the scheme of things letting the
brothers know that the list exists fits.
>4) What are the official fraternity policies on listservers?
>My pledgebook dates back to '91 (am I old yet?), snd has no useful
>answers for me. Or who in the National office or elsewhere
>might know? I ask because I am running the alumni
>list, without "official recognition".
The official fraternity policy is that the fraternity has no official
mailing lists, though sometimes mailing lists might be used to relay
official information.
>Thank you very much.
>
>Signed, the Pepsi who meant well trying to run
>this alumni list, and is starting to wonder
>if it has any use.
To be perfectly honest, I also wonder whether or not there's a need. Right
now, there doesn't seem to be a critical mass of things relevent to alumni
that are boring/annoying the actives that are being posted on the current lists.
Y.I.S.
Ellen c.c. Kranzer
APO-L Administrator
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