[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists

Hi,

Maria Matejka wrote:
> There may be also different approaches altogether. We may be missing e.g.
some visually impaired or dyslectic people, who often rely more on sound
than on text ? yet keeping in mind that sound may be on the other hand a
showstopper for not only hearing-impaired but also e.g. for lots of ADHD
people. I'm not proposing anything specific here, just trying to shed some
light on other factors we haven't yet covered.

I have a different "disability": I read legalese, and I believe that it is
intent to actually take away rights I usually have if I am asked to
explicitly sign them away. Thus, I used to have a Discord account, but I
deleted it after a Terms change not too long ago.

Now, if I don't participate because I don't like the terms Discord demands,
that is probably not that great a loss for the RIPE community. OTOH, if by
the last terms of Discord I saw you discuss/create a new policy document on
Discord, you afterwards cannot publish it anywhere else because Discord owns
copyright for the thing. Is that useful?

Also, I can simply choose to not take part in RIPE processes, but for other
people, it's their job. Asking them to accept the terms of a single third
party (i.e. with no ability to choose a different set of terms with a
different supplier) to be able to do it does not seem like progress to me.
(That is a suggestion to use as communication add-on or replacement
something where RIPE can set the terms).

Regards,
	Petra Zeidler

PS: Usenet has been reinvented, badly, so many times.
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