[Centos] RFE: Please create a announcement mailing list

[dag at wieers.com (Dag Wieers)]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> Of course you can.  Create the announcement list, and then gateway it
> >> to the regular list.  This way, people who just want the announcements
> >> can subscribe to the announcement list, and the people who are on the
> >> regular list will receive the annoucements there.
> >
> > This is silly.
> 
> Of course it isn't.  It's the way a lot of lists are being run.  The
> only question is how many announcements are involved -- if there are a
> lot, as is the case on this list, then that is a good reason to split
> the traffic, and make people subscribe to both lists if they want both
> sets of messages.  That may well be the case here.
> 
> Actually, the whole idea that subscribing to one more list is some
> sort of onerous task that people shouldn't be forced to undertake is
> what is really silly here.  :-)

That's what I meant actually :) It's silly to change things around for a 
few people that don't want to subscribe to another mailinglist.

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