I've created a new list called univcity-announce.
If you are subscribed to univcity (a discussion list), you will
receive mail posted to univcity-announce as well. Subscribers to
either list may post to the announce list, but you must be subscribed
to the discussion list to post discussion items. You can be
subscribed to both if you want, it won't cause duplicate mails as long
as you subscribe with the same address.
The main difference, though, is that univcity-announce may not be used
for discussion. Please post event notices and information about
things happening in the neighborhood. The list will attempt to
enforce the no discussion rule. I will intervene as needed. The list
is not moderated.
Appropriate posts are notices of theater, markets, happenings, porch
sales, and so forth. Most items, that is, for which the purpose is
served if no one replies.
If you want replies, please use univcity as now.
If you want to reply, you may do so to univcity, knowing that everyone
there will have seen the original.
My hope is that this list can serve an intermediate need that many
have requested: to hear about neighborhood things without being
overwhelmed with mail or what some consider to be noise that sometimes
happens on univcity.
Please let others know about this. I've heard many stories of people
unsubscribing from univcity because they didn't like the volume.
All you folks who post announcements (UCD, etc.), please try to
remember to post them to univcity-announce instead. You'll reach all
of univcity plus the folks who only subscribe to univcity-announce.
Some details:
If you reply to a univcity-announce mail, your reply *should* go to
univcity. Some mailers, though, won't recognize that, so make sure
you are replying to univcity and not to announce. Replies sent to
announce will be automatically discarded by the server.
Similarly, make sure you start your emails by saying "new email"
(however you do that in your mail program) and not just finding an old
one to reply to. Replying instead of using new is a bad habit (it
confuses mailers with message threading capabilities), but it also
will look like a reply to the list server and get discarded.
People who abuse announce will hear politely from me and may
eventually be prohibited from posting to it. Otherwise, though, note
that it's not moderated and no one will get kicked off.
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I'm currently subscribed to univcity, also, so I'll watch any
discussion on this item. Feel free to respond to me individually or
to univcity with questions or comments.
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