[GSBN] Admin: Proposal for Non-posting subscribers

Mon Dec 12 04:28:04 UTC 2011

I don't think I'd go so far as an Occupy GSBN movement... I'm not a fan 
of tear gas or confrontational techniques myself. ;-)  Besides, the only 
pigs at the straw construction trough are three little ones, and they're 
in the 99%.

Here's what I've written for the rejection notice for posts from 
uninvited guests:

    The ability to post to GSBN is by invitation only.  Any posts sent
    to the GSBN address from email addresses which have not been
    approved to post are automatically discarded.

    The Global Straw Building Network is a private discussion list with
    publicly available archives and the option for anyone to subscribe
    in non-post mode.  It is composed of representatives of regional
    organizations and other non-affiliated key individuals involved in
    the general advancement of straw-bale and other straw-use building
    materials and techniques. The intentionally small number of members
    range from highly experienced professionals to well informed laypeople.

    Other discussion forums about building with straw exist elsewhere
    for those who are new to the process and/or to building techniques
    in general. Please see http://strawbale.sustainablesources.com or
    http://sustainablesources.com/resources/online-discussions/ to join
    them.

    Should you have further questions about the operation of GSBN,
    please contact the list maintainer/host at
    http://sustainablesources.com/about/contact-us/

I'm open to edits or feedback on all of this.

On 12/11/11 9:58 PM, Maurice Bennett wrote:
> The wider the audience the wider the acceptance of all that this group 
> attempts to foster.  The membership should not be opened to one and 
> all but the information certainly deserves to be available.
>
> So are we advocating Occupy GSBN?
>
> MHB
>
> On Dec 11, 2011, at 04:50 PM, Bruce King <bruce at ecobuildnetwork.org> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Sounds like a great idea to me.  I don't remember writing or reading 
>> anything here that couldn't be made public.  And anyway, as you say 
>> we're all aware that once you send an email anywhere, it's public or 
>> at least findable.
>>
>> Let's not go hiding our torches or candles or sometimes teensy 
>> burning match ends under bushel baskets.  Let GSBN free!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bruce King
>> bruce at bruce-king.com <mailto:bruce at bruce-king.com>
>> (415) 987-7271
>> Twitter: @EBNetwork
>> bruceking.posterous.com
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> As y'all might know by now, the GSBN discussions are interesting and 
>>> popular, not just with GSBN folks but with others in the straw 
>>> building world as well.
>>>
>>> We've long made the archives available to all.  Google and other 
>>> search engines regularly crawl the archives, so they're easily 
>>> searchable by putting "GSBN" and your topic in the search field.
>>>
>>> But we also regularly get requests from non GSBN people who just 
>>> want to be able to receive and read the emails and learn from them, 
>>> without participating in the discussion.  I just got another 
>>> compelling request the other day which caused me to re-think things.
>>>
>>> Right now, GSBN is set up as an invitation-only list.  I'm the only 
>>> one who can subscribe people.  If instead we changed the setup such 
>>> that *anyone* can subscribe but only specific people (the current 
>>> and future invited membership) can post to the discussion, with any 
>>> other posts to the list getting rejected/returned to the sender, I 
>>> think we can expand GSBN's influence.  The whole point is to spread 
>>> knowledge of best practices, after all.
>>>
>>> One change which would come from this is that those of us with 
>>> multiple addresses would have to post from the correct one or we'll 
>>> receive a rejection notice.  Up til now I've been getting a notice 
>>> any time one of you does that, then going in and reviewing the 
>>> message and manually approving them for publication to the list. 
>>>  That won't happen any more.
>>>
>>> The only other potential downside - and it's sort of a moot point 
>>> since the archives are published automatically - is that we would 
>>> want to watch what we say about specific problems with specific 
>>> projects.  Not naming owners or builders or otherwise pointing 
>>> fingers that could be followed by insurance companies or lawyers, 
>>> for instance.  I think we're all pretty careful about that anyway as 
>>> most of us have been on the internet long enough to know that no 
>>> email is truly private.
>>>
>>> I'm not attached to the decision either way but I'd like to hear 
>>> some of your thoughts.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bill Christensen
>>>
>>> <http://SustainableSources.com>
>>>
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-- 
Bill Christensen

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