[CMS-Forum] New CMS LISTS

[Bob Doyle]

Hi all,

We hope to stop or at least slow down the continued meta-discussion 
about the list itself, and get back to technical talk about content 
management.

To accomplish this, we have setup complementary mailing lists that will 
not only permit meta discussion, but encourage it.  We have studied best 
practice for community lists in other fields, and think as content 
managers we should employ the best content management techniques to 
manage our own industry.

We'd like to announce the new lists here, then start independent threads 
for each list to get your opinions, criticism, and suggestions about 
them.  Most importantly, we will invite you to join the new lists.

These are your mailing lists.  Help us make them what you want and need. 
We want to keep your energy coming, but as information architects we 
need to channel that energy into the right places.

We hope to soon move some discussions off this list to new ones as follows:

CMS-Meta  (cms-meta at lists.cms-forum.org)
For discussions about this list, and about the original cms-list, which 
has been dead for nearly a month. We have corresponded repeatedly and 
left voice messages with Phil Suh (the co-founder with Cameron Barrett 
and current list mom), but get no response. Anyone may join this list.  
We hope there will be vigorous discussions about CMS-Forum, CMS-List, 
and a controversial new list, CMS-PR:

CMS-PR (cms-pr at lists.cms-forum.org)
Many people have requested a list where commercial messages of all kinds 
are welcome - products and services news, special offers, personnel  
announcements, etc., and this is it.  Behind the scenes we are 
assembling a list of the best addresses we know of to send PR about 
content management, and we will subscribe them all to this list (the CM 
magazines, the top CMS news sites, whoever welcomes relevant press 
announcements). So your PR messages will reach the largest possible 
audience. We hope to use some advanced email-to-forum and forum-to-email 
tools to archive this unmoderated thread. Anyone may join this list.

CMS-Admin (cms-admin at lists.cms-forum.org)
A small list for people who want to help run our lists, perhaps to serve 
as moderators, but especially help create the rules in our Netiquette 
FAQ (http://www.cmsreview.com/NetiquetteFAQ.html).  Membership on this 
list will be by invitation only, but anyone is encouraged to send a post 
to the list.  Non-member posts will be moderated.  Feel free to request 
membership on CMS-Admin, but please keep your anger under control if you 
are rejected - send it all to CMS-Meta!

CMS-OT (cms-ot at lists.cms-forum.org)
A place to send your off-topic posts that you think are somehow of 
interest or related to CMS listers.  Anything goes here. To quote a 
current campaign slogan - bring it on!

Let's try to limit replies on this list to the next several days, when 
you receive your invitations to the new lists.   After that we can all 
recommend posters that go astray to take their posts to the new lists 
(we will politely remind them off-list, right?).  For starters, the 
list-moms will cross-post anything that looks like META or PR to the new 
lists.

You are encouraged to sign up today.  We will send out invitations to 
everyone on this list as soon as we can.  (Those who join early should 
not get another invitation to join. But please bear with us as we get 
the lists working properly.)

Subscription information pages.

http://mailman.skybuilders.com/mailman/listinfo/cms-meta
http://mailman.skybuilders.com/mailman/listinfo/cms-pr
http://mailman.skybuilders.com/mailman/listinfo/cms-admin
http://mailman.skybuilders.com/mailman/listinfo/cms-ot
http://mailman.skybuilders.com/mailman/listinfo/cms-forum

-- 
Bob Doyle, Editor In Chief
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