On Monday 20 August 2007 01:27pm, Jennifer Charrey wrote: > On Mon, August 20, 2007 12:53 pm, Clint Savage wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for leaving your hanging. I think that > >> we should keep the announcement list and work harder to keep > >> announcements and discussions separated so that people can trust it. > > > > I wonder what else actually happens on the announce list besides the > > meeting announcements. Why does it have to be there if that's the > > case? I follow it, but I don't really differentiate between it and > > the main (uphpu) list. Same thing goes for the jobs list. Seems to > > me to be a bit of a waste, mailman can support topics too, but its not > > even necessary to have this many lists. Is it? > > Well the point is just that some people don't want to have to subscribe to > 300+ emails a month just to find out whether the meeting's been canceled. > (And don't say "they can just do digest mode" because as I've already > pointed out, the digest would arrive too late for meeting cancellation > notices.) You could just post cancellations on the site, but I think the > e-mail method is preferable for that sort of thing because you don't have > to remember to visit the site or check RSS. It's more of an alert. > > That said, I'd support the use of topics if having a separate list is a > real burden. I'm not sure how well topics would work or if people would > actually remember to mark emails for a given topic though.
I would suggest keeping the announce list and subscribing the members lit to the announce list so that anytime you send an announcement, all members get that, too. Then, just make sure you use the announce list for announcements and everyone will get it wheather they are subscribed to one or both and members will get member list mails and those subscribing to just the announce list will only get the announcements. Is that a simple enough solution? -- Lamont Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Founder [ http://blog.OpenBrainstem.net/peregrine/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: 0E35 93C5 4249 49F0 EC7B 4DDD BE46 4732 6460 CCB5 ___ ____ _ _ / _ \ _ __ ___ _ __ | __ ) _ __ __ _(_)_ __ ___| |_ ___ _ __ ___ | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| _ \| '__/ _` | | '_ \/ __| __/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ | |_| | |_) | __/ | | | |_) | | | (_| | | | | \__ \ || __/ | | | | | \___/| .__/ \___|_| |_|____/|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|___/\__\___|_| |_| |_| |_| Intelligent Open Source Software Engineering [ http://www.OpenBrainstem.net/ ]
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