Re: Proposal for changes to gnome-announce

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 01:09, Chema Celorio wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 01:58, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So, a while back, there was some discussion about what kind of software
> > announcements were appropriate on gnome-announce list, specifically with
> > regards to the applist emails (which often had lowish quality info).
> > 
> > I think that gnome-announce should target casually interested users,
> > onlookers and general press, which would require a change to the kind of
> > stuff we publish there:
> > 
> >   - Major release announcements
> >   - General developer/user news (GWN)
> >   - Press releases
> > 
> > This leaves software announcements out of the picture, so an accompanying
> 
> 
> It doesn't make sense. The list is mostly used for software
> announcements right now, where 1,592 [*1] members have subscribed for
> that purpose. 
> 

I agree with Jeff that a list for the three purposes described above
would be good.

I agree with Chema that starting a new list is a better way to do
it,since the people who subscribed to gnome-announce are already
subscribed to a list of a different sort.

Cheers,
John
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