On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 19:36:37 +0100, Peter Flynn <>
wrote:
| The WG was certainly a closed list, but my recollection (possibly
| faulty) was that the SIG list was open.
The SIG list was open to public view for the first year or so of its
existence.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/
There was a "reorganization" in July 1997 of the "SGML Activity",
after which, sadly, the SIG list was renamed and moved into the
Members area.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-sig/
(The link won't work, obviously, unless you have Member access)
I discussed this fiasco with a leading light of the W3C a long time
ago. Neither of us made any impression on the other.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Jan/subject.html
(thread: not closed by process rules [was: So, what's left?])