Lamont Peterson wrote:
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?
Good suggestion. This would be an intelligent way of sending
announcements - let the computer do the work and members subscribe to
the least number of lists.
I don't think we have enough messages to really warrant topic lists.
Even Inkscape with millions of users only has 2 lists (developers and
users).
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