1 list is probably the way to go, though my filters take care of duplicate email so I don't have a strong preference either way.
I also like the idea of an optional tick box raised by Sebastian Garde earlier-: . >...wasn't there an option somewhere that people could tick?? That may be >another option to consider then< Cheers Juanita Fernando Thomas Beale wrote: > 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 >
