I'm guessing confidentiality is the purpose for such a list. I'm not sure, however, that private mailing lists are necessarily great things right now. I understand the need for some discretion as concerns certain stories, but even so, do you want *all* accredited reporters to have access to all of that confidential information? If the answer is "no", then perhaps continued back-channel communication is the best thing (and even that's regrettable on a news site where everything is supposed to be out in the open and everyone should be able to participate in any stage of article preparation he might wish).

I used Google Documents (Writely at the time) to collaboratively write several slightly confidential stories with Wikinewsies a few years ago. For the most part, they were stories that were embargoed for some reason until a certain date or time.

Just rambling...
-N.

On Dec 18, 2007 9:49 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn@gmail.com> wrote:
Wasn't the mail list servers moved arround a while ago to make it
easier to set up new mailing lists? ( I remember something in wikizine
a while back. arbcom ended up being google groups)

As for mailing list, has there been a need for one yet? If there is, I
say why not. but if there isn't, one no need to go creating what could
be considered cabal this that without reason.

-bawolff

On Dec 17, 2007 2:10 AM, Wikinews Markie < newsmarkie@googlemail.com> wrote:
> file a bugzilla :-)
>
> mark
>
>
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> On Dec 17, 2007 4:14 AM, Nathan Reed < nathanreed@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From time to time it has been difficult to get the powers that be to
> create new mailing lists. The climate may have changed, of course.
> >
> > -N.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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