[Free-sklyarov-uk] Advice and Help

[Edward Welbourne]

> I've been trying to think of a way that several people could answer
> E-mails coming to a single address.
Many postmaster@ and webmaster@ addresses are handled like this.
I suspect the problem you address has already been analysed to death,
i.e. either solved or proven insoluble.
Talk to the professional sysadmins ...
  ... cooee, I know you're out there guys, tell Jim about it ...

> One way would be to ...
use of `group reply', threaded mailers, etc. are all very well - and
much can be said in their favour generally - but none of it helps at
all with the synchronisation problem: two parties reading their e-mail
at the same time reply to the journalist; each starts work on the
reply before the other sends their reply.  I'm not sure there *is* an
answer to that one.  Some messages are going to get replies from
several list members; but I don't see this as a problem.

Meanwhile, why do we want a press at cdr e-mail address anyway ?
> The reason I was thinking about this was because, as an chaotic
> group of individuals with different voices (...), we need a way to
> answer press questions.

The press want a unified voice, so send them to FIPR.
They'll get to talk to Julian and Caspar: what better could we offer ?
Or let them contact us as individuals ... which is what we are.
The truly interested journalists are, of course, already lurking on
this list ... along with the less clueless of our opponents ... well,
OK, I'm paranoid, I admit.  But this can be useful in its place.

> (the new leaderless model for this group)
which, by the way, I keep expounding: but see no discussion thereon.
I realise Julian agreed with some of my first remarks in this
direction, but this shouldn't necessarily be interpreted as support
for the more anarchic position I've taken since.  For a model to
pertain to the group - i.e. for a decision to be taken on how much
organisation `we' (TINW) want - requires more than just one lunatic
proposing an anarchic position ... albeit a deafening enough silence
will end up being interpreted as assent ... so is leaderless good in
other eyes ?  Are you entirely certain I'm not a lurker-for-Sony doing
my best to ensure the CDR stays too disorganised to be effective ?

	Eddy.
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