Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Communications by email

[Eris Weaver (erisw]

Kay Argyle wrote:

> We had a discussion while in the construction stage about what subjects
were
> "appropriate" for our community listserve.  I came down on the side of
> anything and everything -- movie recommendations, politics, whatever.  It
> helped us to get to know each other if we were permitted to show our
outside
> interests, and given a choice I preferred to read off-topic messages
instead
> of arguments about whether something was off-topic.

Our community deals with this issue by having more than one listserv. We
have one that is reserved solely for cohousing business -- meeting agendas,
discussion about proposals, etc. -- and a separate one that is more
"social", and appropriate for the notices about dance classes, movies,
politics, etc. That way those of us who DON'T want tons more email can just
not subscribe to the social list, and those who DO like to get those sorts
of messages can.

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Eris Weaver                                erisw [at] sonic.net
SoCoHo
http://www.sonic.net/~erisw/socoho.html
Sonoma County, Northern California

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