Florin Andrei wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 13:58 +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > >> when linux-audio-announce was created, it was agreed that >> announcements should be crossposted to all three lists. The >> reasoning was that this way people wouldn't have to subcsribe to >> LAA if they were already on LAD+LAU. >> >> Now when you look at LAA archives, some people post only to LAA, >> some (like me) to all three lists, and some to either LAA+LAD or >> LAA+LAU. > > > I didn't even knew that LAA existed. :-/ > > Perhaps Mailman should be configured so that it adds a footer to each > message, containing basic stuff such as where to go to > subscribe/unsubscribe, and where are the other related lists. > > Anyway, i think your proposal makes sense. Crosspostings are bad. Ok, > now let me subscribe real quick now to LAA... > sorry, i'm horribly behind LA mail :( the original rationale of the cross-posting policy was as follows: * linux-audio-announce should have no discussions at all to keep the volume down (so that nobody would be discouraged from subscribing). * announcements tend to spawn interesting discussions * these discussions should be in some way related to the announcements, for example by being in the same mail thread. that's why announcers are encouraged to cc: lad and lau, so that discussions can follow. since some people choose not to do that, folks interested in seeing all the announcements should probably subscribe to linux-audio-announce as well. best regards, j?rn
