[r6rs-discuss] Community building

[Elf]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Thomas Lord wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Elf wrote:
>
>> I do not know of any other serious standards process that has intentionally
>> operated amidst off-topic ramblings, spam, and newbie questions, without
>> any form of moderation (ie, usenet).  There may be a reason for this.
>
>
>
> Probably the reason (imo) is that your pejoratives
> are misplaced.  That most -- *most* -- of the discussion
> is not "off topic"

With the list's permission, I will attach the last 7 days of c.l.s. for 
a group decision about its suitability for the r7 discussions.

> and that the universal skepticism
> about this standards effort and in some cases the deeper
> deconstruction of the effort (and attempt to push things
> to a better track) is, well,  more wise.
>

So what's wrong with using the r6 or r7 discussion lists?  They are open to
the public, stay on relevant topics, aren't trivially spammable, and can
be moderated if necessary.


-elf