[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 04/01/2011, at 2:28 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

> I think this is a severe change that needs to be undone. I also do not think this is the kind of change that co-coordinators should be making unilaterally,

Well, I don't agree that any severe change has been made.  The list is still open, it's just the means of subscribing has changed.

If enough people agree with you and disagree with me, then I can re-enable subscriptions via email and via the old Web page.  However, we will then lose a lot of the benefits of having a single subscription page to both the list and the Web resources.

> I am also very uneasy with the way you are changing what it means to be a member of the IGC.

I am not doing that at all.

> And with the way you are terming those who participate in the list passively as lurkers

That is a value-neutral term, as far as I use it.  But I've apologised if anyone was offended by use of that term.

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