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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > mjd-list-bootstrap <mjd-list-bootstrap@plover.com> writes: > > I'm still expecting people to object to the idea of many many lists. > > What happened to the people who were saynig yesterday that there should > > only be a few lists? > > My main objection would be mostly dealt with if the chairs of these > "mini-groups" committed to summarizing the discussion and the results of > the discussion on the separate mailing lists (or delegating this task to > someone else) and posting those summaries to some main list. I was thinking about this today as well, but about the bootstrap list in particular. My presumption is that a wg chair has an agenda, and has a background for the wg area. If the chair were to provide summaries in *all* cases, it would lead to these problems: 1) is keeping minutes an undue burdon on the wg chair? 2) does the chair keeping minutes remove a check or balance on the process? If someone *else* on a workgroup were charged with maintaining the weekly summaries, it would be one less thing a chair needed to deal with, and one more way to involve a larger portion of the community. It would also provide checks and balances on wg chairs. It's an idea. Not sure if I'm for or against it. Z.