[tei-council] Setting up read-only access to TEI Council list?

[Kevin Hawkins]

(1) Since we opened the list archives years ago in the interest of 
transparency, it seems that a mandate for transparency extends to ease 
of accessibility.  On those grounds, I support making it easier to 
follow Council discussions.

(2) I see two possible technical mechanisms for this:

a) Add as a member of tei-council an address like 
council-outsiders at lists.village.virginia.edu , which we would advertise 
so that those interested could subscribe.  Members of that list would 
receive messages sent to tei-council, and we would trust that they 
wouldn't ever send a message to tei-council with 
"council-outsiders at lists.village.virginia.edu" as the sender in order to 
post.

b) Add as a member of tei-council some email address hooked up to an 
email-to-RSS service and then publicize the feed URL.

The advantage to (a) is that it allows threading of messages, whereas 
feeds (b) do not.  But (a) would also create an entirely duplicated 
message archive.

On 5/18/2012 9:00 AM, David Sewell wrote:
> Christof Schöch (http://www.christof-schoech.de/en) has just inquired
> about whether it is possible for him to get read-only access to TEI
> Council list email, either via email or an RSS feed. Of course the
> archives are publicly accessible, but to my knowledge we have never set
> up a feed that would enable people to view messages as they go out.
>
> I know that there are various email-to-RSS services and programs out
> there. So two questions: (1) is this something the Council would want to
> enable, and (2) any suggestions on the best way to implement it, if so?
>
> David
>