[registrars] "Registered Representative" defined; RC Mailing list access to be limited.

[Thomas Keller]

Rob,

after playing around with the forum for a while I come up with the 
following idea. If we would create a user that is allowed to post all 
forum discussion to this mailing list we would be able to
be receive the information as we are right now but could limit the the 
actual participation in the discussion to paid up members that have 
login to the forum.

Best,

tom

Rob Hall schrieb:
> Thomas,
>
> To answer your question, not exactly.
>
> The forum software is set to email either every message or daily or
> weekly digests of them to its members.  You get to choose what you want.
> For myself, I have chosen to have every message emailed to me, so it
> acts like the current mailing list in terms of outbound email.
>
> The forum does not allow posting to it via email.  We were not able to
> find a forum that would meet our needs that did this.  So you can't post
> to the forum using email.
>
> But every message you receive from the forum has a link in it to go
> right to the spot in the forum where you can reply instantly through a
> web interface.  So with a click, rather than a ctrl-R, you can be
> responding.
>
> The forum also has one other big different than this list, which I think
> is very important.  The forum is for constituency members only.  This
> list has non members on it, as well as people from outside our
> constituency.
>
> I believe membership should have its privileges, and one way to drive
> higher membership (although it is fairly high now and we contact every
> single new Registrar to try and get them to join) is to have things that
> only members can access.
>
> That is why I first proposed a members only mailing list at the San Juan
> meeting, at which Dan Warner of Fabulous suggested upgrading to a forum
> type list, and then he went out and volunteered to set it all up, which
> is now done.  Dan did a great job getting the basic forum setup and
> operational, and Godaddy is hosting it at no charge for the
> constituency.  Thank you to both of them for that.  It would be fairly
> easy to put a front end website at that hosting account too, in front of
> the forum, for other constituency business.
>
> Members are starting to use the forums now, and I encourage all to sign
> in and participate.  Please sign up with your full first and last names
> as your usernames (for example "Rob Hall")
>
> Rob.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Keller
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 11:06 AM
> To: 'Registrars Constituency'
> Subject: Re: [registrars] "Registered Representative" defined; RC
> Mailing list access to be limited.
>
>
> If we could forward all forum entries to this list we could have a slow 
> migration.
>
> Rob is this possible and if yes would it also be possible to post to the
>
> forum via email?
>
> I for myself find it very covenient to use my own email client to 
> communicate but can see the benefits of such a tool.
>
> Best,
>
> tom
>
> Ross Rader schrieb:
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>> Personally I'd prefer to leave the list as it is. The constituency 
>> doesn't have a great track record of running web sites and unless we 
>> can improve this, I'd really like us to leave such an important 
>> element in place and operational. Its been a productive resource for 
>> almost ten years - I'd hate to see our last functional communication 
>> tool broken apart.
>>
>> On 12-Jan-08, at 12:58 AM, Paul Goldstone wrote:
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>>> As for switching from a mailing list to a forum, I assume we'd need a
>>> motion, then a second, then it can go to a vote to see what everyone
>>> thinks of the idea.  Bob - can you advise on this?
>>>       
>> Ross Rader
>> Director, Retail Services
>> t. 416.538.5492
>> c. 416.828.8783
>> http://www.domaindirect.com
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>> "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow."
>> - Erik Nupponen
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