Hi all, <br><br>I am all for transparency, too. I even document my day to day work in wikis. However, sometimes we just need a private forum to discuss strategy. That is all. People can or cannot use it. But at least, they have the alternative. And it is just an alternative. <br>
<br>C<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><div><div>On 14/06/2013, at 8:09 PM, Marianne Franklin <<a href="mailto:m.i.franklin@gold.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.i.franklin@gold.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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</div></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>I think so, but I'm trying to be a neutral facilitator here, and this an issue on which there are equally strong opinions on both sides, manifested by repeated (off-list, uncuriously) requests for a closed list.  I'm for radical transparency personally, but it seems to be quite an alien concept to some segments of civil society (I've found this in working on trade issues, for example), and so offering the choice seems to be the best middle path to take.  The default though, I certainly agree, should be to use the open lists.</div>
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