On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28 Dec 2011, at 19:26, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> >>> Hi Andrew -- >>> >>> I just forward the message I received from Rob in total to " >>> [email protected]". Got a return from SYMPA that the editors would >>> look at it. If you or anyone else knows some magic to push this through, >>> that would be great. The [email protected] has about 84000 users! >>> >> >> FYI, we currently have only 134 subscribers to the announce list. > > That's hardly a surprise. There is no way at all to get all those people, > accumulated over a decade of community activity, to all subscribe to a new > list in a week even if they were already informed about it and motivated by a > need to do so. >
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The low response rate indicates to me that the note has not gone out to the legacy announcement list at all yet. -Rob > I suggest the smartest thing to do is to subscribe the > [email protected] to [email protected] so that everyone > hears the news from this project and as they come to value that news migrates > of their own accord so as not to lose the information stream when the legacy > list eventually shuts down. > > S. >
