[SoCoSA/discuss] Mailing list preference question

[Steve S.]

On 2/11/06, Augie Schwer <augie.schwer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/11/06, Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at socosa.org> wrote:
>
> > What does everybody think?  Would it be better for announcements to go to
> > the discuss *and* notify lists, so that you only have to sign up for one
> > list (depending on whether or not you want to be involved in random
> > discussions), or would it be better for announcements to only go to the
> > notify list?
>
> Announcements should go to the Notify list only and if people want to
> discuss them, then they can reply to the Discuss list.

They should go both places, IMHO -- with a bit of boilerplate reading,
"direct followup discussions (if any) to the Discussion list, NOT the
Notify list".

Can this be automated?  Can the Notify-list be configured to bounce a
message having certain criteria (e.g. it's a "Reply"), with the
error-message "Discuss this on the discuss-list,
http://socosa.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss".  Or just make it
Moderated...

Managing 2 mailing-lists to belong to one organization just seems so
awkward; I'm particularly annoyed when I have to move a thread to
another ML when I want to reply
to it...  No, it's not REALLY that much work; it's just a minor peeve,
really.  But it irks.


- Steve S.