[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 118, Issue 13

[Elizabeth Grossman]

Hi John,  wouldn't it be possible to ask everyone to self identify giving street address?   In  fact the board must already  has that information for  most subscribers  because you hand deliver the newsletter.  Admittedly this  would be an honor system  but that to be seems  better than anonymity as it now operates. Elizabeth
On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:31 AM, John Bazik wrote:

>> 1. What is your simple Yes/No vote on making this list no longer anonymous?
> 
> Hey everyone, list administrator here.  There are over 300 subscribers
> to this list last time I checked.  Any process for verifying subscriber
> identity would be a manual one and would require that the list become
> closed (in the sense that one cannot simply subscribe).  I have little
> doubt that the number of subscribers would drop precipitously in that
> case.  I'm not sure who is willing to vet new subscribers, or what that
> process might be, but it sure isn't going to be me.  Frankly, I don't
> consider it practical or advisable, and I've said so privately to the
> SNA board.
> 
> Also, though some of you consider this to be a forum only for neighbors,
> there are other kinds of subscribers.  For instance, prospective and
> elected officials, people shopping for housing, journalists, police
> officers, expat neighbors.  Do we shut them all out?
> 
> John
> 
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