Dear all, sometimes we make 'announcements' to the openehr-announce list - messages globally applicable to all in the community, such as changes to the website or licenses or whatever. Currently we have to cc: these to other lists, due to the fact that not everyone is on the announce list (about 135 out of many hundreds). Making announcements (which are very few - traffic averages I would say 1/month) thus means that we have to do this cc:ing, and it means some of you receive repeats.
Should we: 1. ask everyone to subscribe to the announce list (we could automatically subscribe those 135 people since we can work out the addresses from the mail system), meaning there is only ever one source for openEHR announcments, and no repeated posts for people on more than one list (the vast majority)? 2. just continue as we are, and do the cc:ing, creating repeats? Could we have a few responses to see what people think. In particular, would people see the automatic subscription of the 135 people not on the announce list, to that list, an acceptable thing to do? I personally would argue yes, since we only culled the addresses from other openEHR lists, not from elsewhere, and presumably being on some other list means that you are interested in announcements about openEHR in general. - thomas beale
