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

[Kevin Hawkins]

No need to apologize, Becky.

So, a few of us have objected to tei-council postings being pushed to 
users.  If I may generalize, it seems we are concerned about confused 
expectations: both (a) on the part of Council members in knowing that 
their conversations are more broadly exposed and (b) on the part of 
potential readers in being confused about the ability to participate in 
the discussions.

David mentions that Virginia's current mailing list system is Sympa; the 
tei-council list has been running on a legacy system.  While David said 
he would investigate moving tei-council to Sympa (which supports an RSS 
feed of postings), even if we ask him not to do this at this time, I 
think we can assume that the list will be moved to Sympa or another 
future system someday, and that this system will likely have RSS (or 
some sort of Linked Data) support, allowing users access to content in a 
way that's more convenient than the web interface in the current system.

Keeping in mind this eventuality, how would those who've objected feel 
if tei-council messages were available through an RSS feed?  In my 
opinion, if we can expose our postings in a way that doesn't involve 
messages coming to an email inbox (such as through an RSS feed), then 
concern (b) goes away.

--Kevin