Thomas, I agree with you, everybody subscribed to openEHR should be automatically getting the few but important general announcements, and decide on additional busier clinical and/or technical lists from there.
The question is if you can easily maintain this general subscription for new members or if there is another way. I think my mail client usually filters messages sent to more than one list so that I only ever get one message anyway even if it was sent to the technical, clinical and the announce list - or it may be the listserver that is doing that?!...wasn't there an option somewhere that people could tick?? That may be another option to consider then. Cheers Sebastian > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Beale [mailto:thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 8:59 PM > To: Openehr-Technical; For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Question of net etiquette for this community > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical >
