As usual, you make good points in a clear and concise manner. The alternative for those who don't want to join the volunteer list is to write directly to me. It didn't occur to me until just now that that doesn't get the request to those who might be willing to scan, but I can then forward the request to this list. I think I've done that before, but I can't remember. smile Cindy --- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, Cindy. Your logic makes sense, and for us it > would be more > convenient. I want to agree with you here. However, > I believe that to > people who are not volunteers, joining the > volunteers list in order to > post a book request may seem illogical since they > will receive a lot of > email that is only about volunteer issues. They > can't post to the > volunteers list without joining it first. I see that > we have two > populations, neither one fully willing to reach > toward each other. Most > of the people on the volunteers list know about the > Bookshare Discuss > list. Some have joined it while others have chosen > not to join for a > variety of reasons. It's the same situation on the > members side. Some > actively reach out to work with volunteers while > others are disengaged. > The only long-term solution I can see is to merge > the two lists so that > the group is no longer fragmented into 2 separate > subgroups. As long as > we have two separate groups, we will always have the > issue of > information offered on one list that isn't > communicated to the other. > I'm hoping someone else has a solution that's more > effective than mine. > > Monica Willyard > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.