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Re[2]: Admin: New list setup
Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il> wrote:
> At this (Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:34:54PM +0300) day, Evgeny Stambulchik
> wrote:
> .| Probably you didn't get the idea of the announce list. Its purporse is
> to satisfy
> .| people who aren't interested in general-level discussions, but only
> want to see
> .| important announcements. If it didn't exist, all announcements would be
> sent to the
> .| main list, and you (as a subscriber of the "plain" list) would get them
> anyway, so
> .| what's the difference?
> .|
>
> Pherhaps i was not clear,
> IF you want to get the announce list SUBSCRIBE to it. it shoudn't be send
> to a
> DIFFRENT list. That meens that if someone is only intersting in "important
> announcements" and not "plain" can subscribe t the "spacial list", and
> thus get what he wants, and not get what he dont wants.
> You know something, come to think of it, even if the MASS MAJORITY of the
> linux-il subscribers want the announce list, it should not be send
> autometicly to ALL linux-il subscribers, as they (mass majority) can
> subscribe. its a simple $ echosubscribe|mail whatever@linux.org.il.
Given the vast majority of the current list members are interested in the
announces (I assume so), then the necessity to subscribe (set vacation flag,
..) to both lists in an inconvenience (to the majority). On the other hand,
if you don't want to see the announcements at all, you can setup a filter
(there will be a header like "resent:" or alike, I think). But, I don't
understand why a linux-il subscriber would like to miss an announcement of,
say, new BIDI library.
Regards,
Evgeny
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