Re: New option: Leave Extropians as is, start exi-members list

Ian Camilleri (ian.camilleri@utoronto.ca)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 06:50:00 -0500


At 01:26 AM 12/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Here's a possibility that I'd like to hear feedback on:
>
>The current proposal is to make the Extropians list into a members-only
>list for posting ability, but non-members could still read messages.
>
>Instead, we could leave the Extropians list as it is, and create a new,
>additional list, say ExI-Members, or Extropians-Special, or
>Extropians-Insider (or whatever has the appropriate elitist ring to it :)
>). That would leave this list more open, but mean we have a more filtered,
>probably higher S/N list, with clear guidelines for members, so we would
>still have a new members-only benefit to add to the other membership
benefits.
>
>Feedback welcome.
>
>Max
>
>Max More, Ph.D.
>more@extropy.org
>http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
>President, Extropy Institute: exi-info@extropy.org, http://www.extropy.org
>

I think that this is the best idea so far. I just discovered this new
world of possibilities and as I am not a member, I would hate to see it go
already...there is too much potential for that, and filtering what I want
to read isnt that bad.

Ian Camilleri
ian.camilleri@utoronto.ca