[WSIS CS-Plenary] Plenary: Reporting and discussion

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

I support Karen's proposal, even if Richard's comment is of course true.
 Bertrand

 On 9/24/05, Richard Vincent <cmvince at isugw.indstate.edu> wrote:
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> Dear friends,
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> A new list may be possible, as Karen suggests. Another approach, however,
> may be for those not directly interested to simply change their subscription
> options to the once a day digest version. That too would reduce the
> frequency of messages. Just a thought...
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> Rick
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> dear all,
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> I've had quite a few people unsubscribe from the plenary list, who are not
> in geneva - not because they are not interested in following the process,
> but because the volume of the list is simply too high.
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> This always happens during prepcom as we use the list intensively for
> discussions, planning, drafting, reporting - some of which is very
> important to those of us present, but which has a very short 'shelf-life'
> and is not very useful to those following remotely.
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> I was wondering if it would be useful to create a new list which would
> simply be for reports, drafts of statements and final statements.
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> For example, anyone who is monitoring sub-committee, reports from the CS
> bureau meetings, reports from meetings with government delegatations etc.
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> I think people participating remotely would miss the 'sense' or 'feel' of
> the process, but if this was important, they would need to stay subscribed
> to the plenary.
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> I would be happy to put some time into this, for example, by liaising with
> monitors of sub-committee, our working group focal points etc, and posting
> reports to this new list with clear subject lines - and - to post copies
> of
> reports that have been written to date.
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> the list could be called plenary-reports (or something similar)
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> karen
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