[Lnc-business] cc'ing the LNC email list causes extra work for me

[Starchild]

Alicia,

	What you are talking about is a natural consequence of maintaining a closed LNC list from which, except for a few privileged staffers, most LP members not on the LNC are barred from posting, even occasionally. The person who told people that she was banned from our list was, factually speaking, correct!

	You're asking us, essentially, to take steps so that people are less likely to be reminded of the existence of the closed LNC list when they write to us. But I think it's healthy for them to be aware of it, and reminded of it, and question its necessity. Any barriers between representatives and constituents should be open, not hidden. 

	It only takes you time to clear the queue, because you hold messages up in a queue in the first place.

Love & Liberty,

                                    ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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On Jan 20, 2018, at 11:54 PM, Alicia Mattson wrote:

>   In all the email traffic we are getting from members about the Arvin
>   Vohra situation, some LNC members have taken to cc'ing this email list
>   on their communications with party members.
>   The natural result is that the party member then does a "reply all",
>   but they can't post to this list.  It creates busy work for the
>   moderators to go clear those messages from the queue, and the members
>   are annoyed or confused when their message is rejected from our
>   internal list.  One person, after her message was rejected from this
>   list, later told people that she had been "banned" from our list.
>   Others are just confused and then write asking why they can't post,
>   which just makes the entire situation take up even more of our time.  I
>   think this has happened more in the past two weeks than it did in the
>   entire year prior.
>   Each of you can avoid causing this confusion for others and extra work
>   for me if you don't cc this email list on your external
>   communications.  If you want to forward the LNC a copy of your external
>   communication, please just do that as a separate step.
>   -Alicia
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