Holding more discussions in public

Hello,

I have noticed that there are a number of discussions here that are held
on -board or -prviate when there is no real need for them to not be on
-general. Some of them are on both -board *and* -private, which seems
extra silly. I'd like to propose this:

* Elimination of board-private mailing list and the repeal
of 2003-03-11.iwj.1. That list is never used anyway.

* When carrying out discussions, we should be able to assume that:
+ Everyone subscribed to spi-board is also subscribed to spi-private
+ Everyone subscribed to spi-private is also subscribed to
spi-general

* All conversation, discussion, debates, updates, etc. should be
carried out on spi-general (or a different public SPI list) unless
there is a compelling reason not to.

* All remaining conversation should be carried out on spi-private
unless there is a compelling reason that it should be restricted to
members of the board.

I could think of only one example of something that would go to
spi-private:

* Private information about financial transactions or addresses
(that is, a donor may not wish to be publically identified)

And I could only think of one example of something that should go to
spi-board:

* Confidential discussions with SPI legal counsel

I think that most of the conversations in spi-board, and a goot number
of them in spi-private, have no need to be held in private.

To implement this, we'll need a resolution repealing 2003-03-11.iwj.1.
I don't think we need resolutions for the rest of it.

Comments?

-- John