[New-imc] new here

[libby]

Hey,

Could we please focus the discussion on how the working group can use 
its tool properly and not on personal issues?

Thanks,

Libby
valentine eben wrote:

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>>valentine: i don't understand why you are making this such a huge  
>>principle. i still think that working groups need to have the autonomy  
>>to decide how to work, without making this a global process issue. i  
>>know imc germany has done that in the past (unsubscribe lurkers), and  
>>i'd be surprised if others hadn't. in my view it would be fine to inform  
>>the network about this - i think we need a balance between  
>>information/transparence (NOT beaurocracy) and autonomy that enables the  
>>people to do the work they want to. there are dozens of closed mailing  
>>lists and imc-process was never bothered. this is not a political party  
>>with central committee. 
>>if however this principle will be made a rule i withdraw from this  
>>working group right away. i'd prefer people to put their energy in new  
>>imc's rather than into principles. 
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>Anna! My point is more than one of a principle it is the fact that I've not seen any point in un 
>subscribring people in a global working group mailing lists based un the assumption that they are just 
>lurker(not expereinced and just seating around). 
>In imc-Germany it was a point about security and people where unsubcribed from the site-admin-list 
>where people think sensitive issues are being discussed and not in all imc-Germany lists. 
>I think the only closed(to men) list that I know in the network is womyn list and when someone noticed 
>that they brought it up to process and a discussion was started about it. 
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>I'm surely struggling against having a central committee type list for newimc and rather wanting to 
>get as many people as possible in the network participate in the discussion and you sure know that 
>place is process. 
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>>3) 
>>my attempts to subscribe to the list still aren't successful. while i  
>>can follow perfectly well by reading archives and answering to cc's  
>>emails ;) i'm wondering what it takes? 
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>Imagine that you wanted to know what exactly is  the situation with other imcs from a particular 
>continent. Check how many mails are sent here with different subject and different continent. Tell me 
>from which part of the archives you will start to read.  
>And may be answer the question why should some one go to all that problem when they can simply 
>subscribe in the lists and follow how the discussions go??. 
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>>Anna 
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>Valentine  
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