[linux-audio-user] announce list policy question

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Subject: [linux-audio-user] announce list policy question
From: Joern Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 22:56:01 EEST


hi everyone !

i'm about to announce the new linux-audio-announce list to other
related mailing lists (alsa, lkml) and news site maintainers.
there is this one undecided issue whether to cc: LAD/LAU on all
announcements or not. i'd welcome your opinions before i make the
list known to a wider audience.

below, i have quoted some contributions from andy, steve and me for
your reference.

if i there are no other votes, it's 2:1 against cc:ing, and i lose
:)

best,

jörn

I wrote:
> Andy Wingo wrote:
>
> > A question, though; I note that there is now an -announce list. In the
> > welcome note it states that copying -user and -dev is encouraged...
> > why's that?
>
> the idea is this:
> all the announcements are perfectly on-topic on LAD and/or LAU.
> when posting an announcement, copy -user and/or -dev because in 99%
> of all cases people have questions, comments etc. and for those, the
> announce list is not the right place.
>
> >If folks want announcements, imo they should sign up to
> > -announce, and the mail-followup-to should be set to -user or -dev.
>
> i don't want to coerce LAD and LAU readers to subscribe to yet
> another mailing list in order not to miss announcements that belong
> on lad/lau anyway.
> the announce list is basically for people who don't want to follow
> LAD/LAU/other audio lists and still not miss important news, not to
> remove the important news from LAD/LAU :)
> i hope that many guys who run audio news sites can use this, and
> also distro people and casual audio users.
>
> for this to work, it's not really necessary that many LAD and LAU
> readers subscribe to LAA - only that *all* newsworthy announcements
> be cc:ed there. otoh, by asking for cc:s to -user and -dev on the
> LAA page, i wanted to reiterate that those places are where the real
> action is.

In another mail, Steve Harris wrote:
>
>
> I like the idea of an announce list and not cc-ing to dev and user. It
> will decrease the volume of mail (slightly), and means that people who
> dont care, dont have to get announcements.

--
Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat
the yellow snow !
	- Frank Zappa


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