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. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]