Soo it seems to me private messages to group within this forum are super problematic I usually disable them for several reasons:
- Many times people do not differentiate private messages from posts and they do not no the differences
- Private messages are not searcheable and contrary to posts, not attached to a specific conference.
- Private messages send notifications to all group members for every message in the thread, contrary to posts where notification level can be adjusted and responses are only notified to people participating to the conversation.
I would like to suppress the private messages to groups here, but the registration mail cfp@offdem.net arrives as a private message to all group members.
The only way to change this would be to do a small team that would be in charge of accepting new registrations and obviously this would be less horizontal decisions.
But since as up to now we did not refuse anyone I would be in favor of delegating registration to the group to a smaller team, for the sake of notification quietness.