Re: Secondary proposal ;) [Was: Proposal for changes to gnome-announce]

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 18:52, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Can I ask what the evidence is that changing the list will make any
> > improvements to our PR?  Or for that matter where the original impetus
> > for this idea came from?
> 
> It's all about relevance.
> 
> We have two usage patterns of this list. People who want to know about new
> GNOME-related software releases, and people who want general news about
> GNOME (the wider picture).
> 
> Currently, the second group aren't helped very much, because they get a big
> messy mailbox of difficult-to-read software announcements, and a few major
> news things and GNOME Weekly News here and there.
> 
> Note that the latest suggestion from Chema is to create gnome-news-list for
> this group, and copy the subscriber list over. This is great.

Or alternatively, create gnome-news-list and announce the new list on
gnome-announce (if we're really concerned about people having to create
procmail filters, etc) :-)

-Seth


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