[16546] in APO-L
Re: List recognition (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pepsi)
Mon Apr 7 21:56:35 1997
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:44:27 -0400
Reply-To: Pepsi <pepsi@OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Pepsi <pepsi@OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
This response is worth sharing with the rest of the class.
-Joy
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Letters of the world unite!!!!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:44:36 -0400
From: Michael Leahy <Michael.Leahy@vt.edu>
To: Pepsi <pepsi@OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: List recognition
At 12:16 PM -0400 04/07/1997, Pepsi mentioned:
>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:
Did you realize that Fuzz ran his web site for about 2-3 years before it
finally became the "official fraternity web site"?
I don't think that APO-L has ever been named "the official fraternity email
discussion list." It prospers because it delivers information that people
find useful.
>1) What makes an effective/useful list-server?
Know your audience. Are you trying to contact alumni, or alumni
secretaries in chapters?
Have useful information or topics that people are interested in subscribing
to and participating in. Also, this should be information or discussion
that people can't get easily from other sources (ie, why subscribe to the
alumni list when APOSOC-L might serve the need?)
>2) What actions can an admin take to encourage posting?
Post useful information yourself, pose thought provoking questions, post
occasional summaries to the other lists.
>3) How does one go about getting a list server "official"
>recognition and PR?
Write a proposal to the National Publicity Committee in care of mrn
Tomusiak <mrn@kenan.com>.
To become official, I think it would need to be a moderated list, which
means it can't have open discussions. See, to be official, anything that
is sent over it must be factual and the party line.
In short, getting an "official" designation will probably kill it.
>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".
I doubt we have official policies on listservers. It's mostly common sense
about reliability and liability.
>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.
--Michael
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