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

[hobbit aloss ukuu org uk]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:55:59PM +0200 or thereabouts, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:55:33AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > This very true. I'm happy to create a new software announce list, 
> > copy the subscribers across, and help admin the announce list to 
> > stop module specific software announcements going through.
> > 
> > So we'd have:
> >   gnome-announce-list: Major release announcements, press releases, news.
> >   gnome-software-list: Individual module release announcements.
>
> It's still a very bad idea, just to pull the old mailing list away 
> under everyone's feet. A mass-resubscribe won't help: procmail rules 
> will break, people will wonder why they're getting mail from a mailing 
> list they've never heard of, people will try to send software 
> announcements to gnome-announce-list and get frustrated when they 
> get rejected, people will search the gnome-announce-list archives 
> and wonder why suddenly it's so quiet on this list, etc. If you want 
> a new list, create a new list. Don't abuse a working list for that reason.

I think Sebastian has a good set of points there. Hadn't thought
of the archive-searching one myself. 

I've just endured a list changing name, so personally, I find the 
procmail rule argument compelling :) 

Telsa