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

[Steve George <s rascal org>]

Hi,

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?

If the idea is to improve PR by having journalists and other 'casual users'
join the list them presumably there is some evidence to suppose this would
happen?

Personally, I would have thought that casual users and journalists are much
more likely to discover changes via gnotices/gnome-summary or general news
sites.  If I compare our list to our cousin project I find that theirs is for
the same purpose as our current list:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-announce&r=1&w=2

So unless there's a strong reason I can't see why we want to annoy 1500
subscribers ;-)

Cheers,

Steve



On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:55:33AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> 
> > Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se> writes: 
> > > As said, I think we should create another list for those that are not on
> > > the current list. But don't change this list since we then would have to
> > > move all of the current subscribers to a new list instead of those
> > > interested in a list with less but more high quality could subscribe
> > > themselves there.
> > 
> > Note that it is not that hard to subscribe all the gnome-announce
> > subscribers to another list. Not sure it matters, but just so people
> > know...
> 
> 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.
> 
> More thoughts? :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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