RE: [nndl] Why so many lists?

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- So it looks like the battle over the development is more or less over,

so now I'd like to turn to the question, "how do we stop this

foolishness from happening again." This experience has revealed several problems to me, and with the rest

of my tenure as president of the neighborhood association, I'd like to

address some of these problems. First things first, how many e-mail lists do we need? It helps to know some of the history behind the lists that we have. NLNPT -- the North Loop Planning Team is a group created by the city to

help with the creation of the neighborhood plan. (The city is still in

the process of creating these neighborhood planning teams across Austin

-- ours was among the very first ever created.) The NLNPT has active

members from several different neighborhoods -- Morningside-Ridgetop,

Northfield, and
Skyview. To be on NLNPT, you are supposed to be an

active member of the NLNPT (meaning you actually go to the meetings).

Information posted to the NLNPT discussion list is SUPPOSED to be for

planning team issues. NNDL -- A guy I have never met named Bapi created this discussion forum

as part of the planning team activity, and he continues to maintain it

to this day. I've talked to him through e-mail, and he seems like a

very nice guy. Bapi created the NNDL as a discussion forum for people

who live in this general area - Morningside-Ridgetop, Northfield,

Skyview. Really anybody interested in this general part of Austin could

join. I have no idea how many people are on NNDL -- maybe Bapi could

answer that. NNADL -- I'm afraid this one is my brain-child. I thought it made sense

to have a discussion list specifically for the Northfield Neighborhood

Association. I created it when I created the website NorthfieldNA.org.

The NNADL was intended to be a discussion forum that we could monitor

and control -- a discussion list for issues related specifically to the

Northfield
Neighborhood. We advertise the NNADL in the NNA newsletter,

and people can sign up through our website. I just checked, and it has

115 people on it right now. SO -- if people think we have too many lists, then we need to decide

which one we should keep. The NLNPT is staying -- that's not negotiable. That one is just for

active members of the planning team. The NNDL has been very generously supported by Bapi for years, and it

has been a great forum. But it is intended for a fairly wide audience

(geographically speaking). During the "great debate" we have had in
the

past month about Koenig development, residents in Morningside-Ridgetop

have had to endure a slew of e-mail about a development that may not be

that interesting to them. I was also a little creeped out when Jamil called me and told me that

somebody was offering to subscribe him to our discussion list so that he

could monitor what we were saying. I know that couldn't happen with the

NNADL because the only people who can subscribe him to that list are me

and the webmasters. (It turns out it doesn't really matter because he

could still monitor all of our discussions on Bapi's website if he

wanted to... Anybody in the world can check out what we're saying on

that site.) So, if we are going to have one forum for all of our discussions, which

one will it be? ____________________________________________

Sebastian Wren, Ph.D.

Director

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