One Human Tribe – “Semi Open” List

In the hopes of driving up membership, One Human Tribe is now a “semi open” e-mail list.

In essence this means that while membership is open, one must still reply to the “Age Confirmation” e-mail before a new member is allowed to post to the list. Failure to do this will be met with automatic denial after fifteen days. If anyone, spambot or otherwise, gets through the first hurdle and posts objectionable material as considered by the group rules standard, then they will also be denied.

Hopefully, this will bring more people in while still keeping a safe, comfortable list.

If you’re new to this blog then please feel free to check out the list of groups via links and the signup buttons in the left sidebar.

Cheers and Thanks,
The Moderator

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Group Topic Ideas

In thinking of ways to generate conversations on the groups and group blog I maintain, I’ve been thinking of topics that might get an opinion out of people.As I am going back to school very soon, Self Education is certainly going to be getting a good deal more attention than it has in the past. I’m hoping that it will grow as a place where people can discuss different methods of education as well as have interesting discussions about the various academic subjects out there.

With TR2070-DAFT, I’m going to test the waters of the more inclusive policy I set in place a few months ago by inviting people who are fans of other genres into the group. It’s my hope that it will help foster conversations and generate new ideas.

….Lunatic Fringe…. in being the only one among the things I moderate which is signifigantly different, in that it’s a group blog rather than an e-mail list, is a bit more difficult to figure out. In finding topics, I’d have to not only figure out what would get the current members posting but also figure out which topics would generate enough interest in the group that others will be interested in joining.

One Human Tribe, it seems to be growing…slowly. Now that there are a few more members, I’m going to start encouraging people to introduce themselves in addition to running topics. I won’t be posting the PGRDF or anything like that (though I won’t refuse peoples right to use it) but I might do a short survey which will be sent along with the welcoming message for new members to fill out. I will also be posting here a bit more rather than leaving it to the hope that people will post themselves and generate discussion.

I will be doing this next Saturday as that’s now my only free day until late December.

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TR2070-DAFT E-mail List

Busy day today. I have, after several millenia, updated the TR2070-DAFT e-mail list. I changed the main topic to general science fiction and/or sci fi appreciation and allowed for Snark. Below is the intro from the groups mainpage:Welcome to the TR2070-DAFT e-mail list. This list is open to any and all Humans. The dedication of this group is to science fiction and/or sci fi fans without regards to allegiance, fandom, or anything else so divisive. Our one purpose here is to come together in appreciation of each other as fans of science fiction and sci fi in general but the posting rules are pretty open.

The origin of this list was as a Total Recall 2070 fanlist and specifically a Karl Pruner fanlist. While the show seems to have gone the way of the Do Do, I’m in no mood to rename the list. So, let the title stand in honor of the show that could have been and if you don’t like that then hard cheese. :p

No topic is too broad or off for this list, the only rule being to remember that it is an open list and all da wittle babies might be on here. Please don’t piss their parents off and have them e-mailing me with threats of flogging with The Eternal Wet Noodle. Ok?

Oh yeah, be warned. The Snark is worshipped here as a major deity.

Cheers,
The Moderator

Keywords: Total Recall 2070, Science Fiction, Sci Fi, Stargate, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon 5, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Blakes 7, K9 and Company

E-mail me with suggestions for more keywords.

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