--On Friday, July 21, 2023 15:09 -0500 Pete Resnick <resnick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 20 Jul 2023, at 16:31, John C Klensin wrote: > >> Third, I'm fascinated by Christian's idea of allowing someone >> to subscribe to a "follow" list for a WG. Let me try what >> might be a different version of the same idea or perhaps a >> different one. Suppose every WG had two mailing lists, the >> primary one as we think about WG lists today (and have for >> many years) and a subset list, almost Announce-like, that was >> expected to be about WG events, not discussions. > > FYI: There is a (unused by us) feature in Mailman called > "topics" that could do exactly this with a WG lists: The chair > could create an "announcement" topic, send messages to that > topic, and subscribers could choose to subscribe only to that > topic. That would, of course, work well too. Thanks. john
