[SoCoSA/discuss] Mailing list preference question

[MPoole]

Hi,

How about subscribing the talk list to the announce list. No one is 
suppose to talk on an announce list anyway, right?

Let everyone know that the talk list gets the announcements so they know 
it is only necessary to subscribe to one or the other.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Eisenhart" <freiheit at socosa.org>
To: "MPoole" <mpoole at imperma.net>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [SoCoSA/discuss] Mailing list preference question


> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:21AM -0800, Steve S. wrote:
>> 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...
>
> The notify list already sets Reply-To to the discuss list, and it's
> moderated.  (Even I have to get approval for messages I send to 
> notify) We
> can also automatically insert boilerplate headers and footers for 
> messages
> to either list; right now it's just footers that identify each list.
>
>> 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
>
> Well...  The way I see it, these are the basic options:
>
> 1) A single mailing list that announcements and discussions all go to; 
> if
>   you want to see announcements but not discussions too bad.  (or try 
> to
>   use mailman's topics stuff so that it's possible to sort of split 
> the
>   mailing list up)
> 2) Separate lists for announcements and discussions, with 
> announcements
>   going to both places.  Members sign up for one list or the other, 
> but
>   not both, depending on whether they want to see discussions.
> 3) Separate lists for announcements and discussions, with 
> announcements only
>   going to one list.  Everybody signs up for notify and people who 
> want
>   discussions also sign up for discuss.
>
> There's also a "massmail" option in our content management system 
> (drupal)
> that can be used to email everybody that's signed up on the website. 
> And
> from what I can tell, it shouldn't be too difficult to automatically 
> send
> "invites" to either or both mailing lists when somebody signs up on 
> the
> website.
>
> Oh, also, an alternative for discussions: http://socosa.org/discuss
> (there's a gateway between that and the discuss mailing list.  Delay 
> of up
> to an hour for messages to go from the mailing list to the web forum
> currently, but that could be shortened)
> -- 
> Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at SoCoSA.org>
> SoCoSA Founder and President
> IRC: freiheit on irc.socosa.org
> AIM: falschfreiheit
>
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