On 25 Apr 2009, at 18:57, Shawn Walker wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: >> On 24 Apr 2009, at 17:58, Jon Aimone wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I originally sent this request only to the caiman alias, but it >>> applies to pkg and install as well (and others). >>> >>> It would be extremely convenient (and avoid lots of "Why did this >>> break?" messages) if there were a Flag Day/Heads Up page for each >>> project... perhaps there needs to be a general solution for all of >>> OpenSolaris? >> If nothing else, perhaps project that have flag days to announce >> should have a <project>-announce list for that sort of thing, >> rather than polluting the discuss list where they're easy to >> overlook? > > The first complaint I hear every time someone mentions another > mailing list is "I don't want to have to subscribe to another > mailing list" :)
It's pretty common (within Sun, at least) to make announce lists opt- out rather than opt-in... that is, if you subscribe to -discuss, you'd be subscribed to -announce automatically, but can unsubscribe from both separately. Don't know if mailman supports that though, admittedly. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
