Perhaps we could set up an NCSG-ICANN-Announce mailing list to which NCSG 
members are entitled (but not required) to subscribe (we could start by 
subscribing all members of NCSG-Discuss and automatically adding new members 
to both lists, but allow self-unsubscription from the announce list). We 
could then allow posting to that list by ICANN staff (whether Maryam and/or 
others) of information that ICANN staff would like to send to NCSG members 
(who wish to receive such communications). This would keep our internal 
discussion list for our business but allow a formal and clearly separate 
channel for ICANN to send communications to our members.

I've used a similar arrangement for other groups such as ACM SIGCAS where 
there is a commitee announcement list with limited posting privileges, but 
also a member-member discussion list to which all members can subscribe and 
post.


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/