Lauren:
I'll look into this. When we designed this functionality we tried to
keep it as simple as possible so we re-used the observer role that we
already had. I'll see if it will be possible to do a query for
propsective members.
Yes, the observer role is meant to cover the eligible lurkers.
-Karl
Lauren Wood wrote:
> I know the observer category is meant to cover prospective members,
> and that the prospective members will be moved automatically, but I
> would still like to have some way to see the list of members and
> prospective members separately to other observers. The reason for
> this is that observers are probably less likely to want to
> participate in phone calls, and in general are likely to be less
> active, so it would be handy to separate them out from the list. This
> would also help where the TC does not allow non-TC members to post to
> the general list (section 1.i of the process), but does allow
> prospective members to post. I'm not sure if this case exists
> anywhere, but it seems a reasonable possibility to me.
>
> I'm assuming here that the observer category is where those Eligible
> Persons who aren't members but are subscribed to the TC mailing list
> fit. The term isn't defined in the process document.
>
> Lauren
>
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