usual-suspects

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If you don't know what usual-suspects@greenend.org.uk is about, you can fairly safely ignore this entry. If you do know what I'm talking about, though, it'd be groovy if you could read http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/05/us.html some time.

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The original purpose was just a list of email addresses of people we wanted to invite to things at Green End (back when I lived there). It kind of grew in scope a bit over time though; for instance its primary purpose now includes invites to parties at Relativity and Foundation as well. If other people happen to find it useful for invitations then that's great, and some people do seem to. But they don't have to if they don't want to.

I suppose one gets an idea of who is on it by going along to the parties advertized on it.

As to the secrecy: it's now quite a large list of email addresses, and the list was collected with inviting people to parties in mind, rather than e.g. advertizing concerts or whatever. Someone actually tried to do the latter once and that's left some of us a little paranoid about it.

I think of it as more like a newsgroup than a mailing list: if it's a party I'd mention on a newsgroup (which could have pretty much anyone reading it), then it'd be sensible to advertize it to usual-suspects, if not then I'll put together an invitation list manually.