Re: [DIYbio] new mailing list for DIYbio educational outreach

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Brian Degger <brian.degger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nathan,
> I understand your concern...but are not so worried.
>
> If you look at any hackerspace they usually have multiple email
> lists....some aren't public some are.
> Most are published
> So hackerspace might have toilet@hackerspace for bathroom related stuff and
> kitchen@hackerspace for kitchen related stuff..
> The problem isn't the splintering, thr problem is the discoverability.
>
> Which is what wiki are good at and teachers who meet other teachers.
>
> Also....many people who use email clients still don't know how to
> filter....or to reply to the right person or how to unsubscribe from a list.
>
> They will see TEACHERS as spam and irrelevant. I imagine  the teachers list
> topics will be few and deep (in replies and length of reply). Really usefull
> to practitioners but not to the average person.
>
> Does that make sense?

No, I wholeheartedly disagree... though I do understand that people
fail to know how to filter mail. (a jerk might think: if they can't
handle such a simple technology that humans invented, how will they
handle BIO technology that we didn't invent)

This mailing list does not experience heavy traffic; there is no
'average' person that will likely find ANY of this useful, regardless
of length of a thread (come on, forum threads commonly go on for pages
and pages all over the internet).

This seems to smell of elitism/exclusivism in terms of information
sharing, even if it is subconscious.

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