mav wrote:

Sannse wrote:

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I think we really need that mailing list - it's very difficult to follow developments and discusions at the moment.

I was thinking of several. A mediation-l that all mediators would be subscribed to (not sure if this should be a members only, private list),

and

a series of mediation-# lists that each would be used for a specific mediation. These would definitely be private and members only. They would also not have a publicly available archive. All list members of these numbered lists would be automatically un-subscribed after the mediation is over. The list would then be used for the next mediation.

That sounds good to me. I think that the mediation-l (and the arbitration-l) should probably be private, to allow mediators to discuss cases between themselves and ask for advice without breaking confidentiality. But I can see that this might be considered as overly secretive and elitist (if that's the word)- so I'm open to argument.

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How do we set this up? I have absolutely no experience of such things.

I think the Jason is the only person who can set up new lists. Brion might also be able, but I don't know for sure.

What's the best way to contact them to ask for a list to be started? Perhaps we could start with a private list - to be opened up if that is the consensus?

Regards,

sannse

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 03:20, Daniel Mayer wrote:

Sannse wrote:

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I think we really need that mailing list - it's very difficult to follow developments and discusions at the moment.

I was thinking of several. A mediation-l that all mediators would be subscribed to (not sure if this should be a members only, private list), and a series of mediation-# lists that each would be used for a specific mediation. These would definitely be private and members only. They would also not have a publicly available archive. All list members of these numbered lists would be automatically un-subscribed after the mediation is over. The list would then be used for the next mediation.

Be careful to make sure that the participants in the "new" mediation-57 can't access the archives from the previous mediation-57. (Maybe it would be better to never reuse these mailing lists -- if, of course, we use mailing lists at all.)

Carl Witty