sometimes we make 'announcements' to the openehr-announce list -
messages globally applicable to all in the community, such as changes to
the website or licenses or whatever. Currently we have to cc: these to
other lists, due to the fact that not everyone is on the announce list
(about 135 out of many hundreds). Making announcements (which are very
few - traffic averages I would say 1/month) thus means that we have to
do this cc:ing, and it means some of you receive repeats.
Should we:
1. ask everyone to subscribe to the announce list (we could
automatically subscribe those 135 people since we can work out the
addresses from the mail system), meaning there is only ever one source
for openEHR announcments, and no repeated posts for people on more than
one list (the vast majority)?
2. just continue as we are, and do the cc:ing, creating repeats?
Could we have a few responses to see what people think. In particular,
would people see the automatic subscription of the 135 people not on the
announce list, to that list, an acceptable thing to do? I personally
would argue yes, since we only culled the addresses from other openEHR
lists, not from elsewhere, and presumably being on some other list means
that you are interested in announcements about openEHR in general.
I agree with you, everybody subscribed to openEHR should be automatically getting the few but important general announcements, and decide on additional busier clinical and/or technical lists from there.
The question is if you can easily maintain this general subscription for new members or if there is another way.
I think my mail client usually filters messages sent to more than one list so that I only ever get one message anyway even if it was sent to the technical, clinical and the announce list - or it may be the listserver that is doing that?!...wasn't there an option somewhere that people could tick?? That may be another option to consider then.
1. ask everyone to subscribe to the announce list (we could
2. just continue as we are, and do the cc:ing, creating repeats?
3. remove all announce member and add three member, openEHR-clinical,
openEHR-implementers and openEHR-technical
Do you mean we should rebuild the 'announce' list with the other list
ids, i.e. announce becomes a kind of meta-list? If so, this does make it
easier for us to post once, but it would still have the problem of
generating repeated announcements to those on multiple lists. I am on 4
lists apart from announce for example; I don't want 5 messages each time
an announcement is made...
I think 'announce' list is like a meta-list for the others.
Yes, I receive three messages when JXTA release via JXTA-dev, JxTA-user,
JXTA-discussion but I receive once FreeBSD-release although I have
joined multilple FreeBSD mailing lists. It is something
Sometimes I think it bothers for me to receive the same messages, on the
other hand, it was a great reminder for me sometimes.
You should do it for your convinience.