[UPHPU] do we need the announcement list?

[jtaber]

Lamont Peterson wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 01:27pm, Jennifer Charrey wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, August 20, 2007 12:53 pm, Clint Savage wrote:
>>     
>>>> Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for leaving your hanging. I think that
>>>> we should keep the announcement list and work harder to keep
>>>> announcements and discussions separated so that people can trust it.
>>>>         
>>> I wonder what else actually happens on the announce list besides the
>>> meeting announcements. Why does it have to be there if that's the
>>> case?  I follow it, but I don't really differentiate between it and
>>> the main (uphpu) list.  Same thing goes for the jobs list.  Seems to
>>> me to be a bit of a waste, mailman can support topics too, but its not
>>> even necessary to have this many lists.  Is it?
>>>       
>> Well the point is just that some people don't want to have to subscribe to
>> 300+ emails a month just to find out whether the meeting's been canceled.
>> (And don't say "they can just do digest mode" because as I've already
>> pointed out, the digest would arrive too late for meeting cancellation
>> notices.) You could just post cancellations on the site, but I think the
>> e-mail method is preferable for that sort of thing because you don't have
>> to remember to visit the site or check RSS. It's more of an alert.
>>
>> That said, I'd support the use of topics if having a separate list is a
>> real burden. I'm not sure how well topics would work or if people would
>> actually remember to mark emails for a given topic though.
>>     
>
> I would suggest keeping the announce list and subscribing the members lit to 
> the announce list so that anytime you send an announcement, all members get 
> that, too.  Then, just make sure you use the announce list for announcements 
> and everyone will get it wheather they are subscribed to one or both and 
> members will get member list mails and those subscribing to just the announce 
> list will only get the announcements.
>
> Is that a simple enough solution?
>   
Good suggestion.  This would be an intelligent way of sending 
announcements - let the computer do the work and members subscribe to 
the least number of lists.

I don't think we have enough messages to really warrant topic lists.  
Even Inkscape with millions of users only has 2 lists (developers and 
users).