Mandatory subscriptions to a memo-list?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:10:11PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:39:34 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > I have similar problems when sending outage notifications.  When I have a
> > > message to get out to the community, where do I send it?  In the case of
> > > outages it affects art, docs, websites, etc teams.  But the plain old
> > > Fedora-announce list doesn't seem quite right (its more for end user
> > > communication I think).
> > 
> > ... Fedora artists, documenters, webmasters etc.
> > 
> > Or paraphrased: Everything not end-user consumable should go to
> > fedora-devel-announce and everyone involved with Fedora more than as
> > an end user should be subscribed there.
> > 
> > The alternative of creating new *-announce lists will add to the list
> > inflation problem.
> 
> Once the lists and mandatory subscriptions exist -- and provided that
> the contributors cannot unsubscribe -- what is left is to make the
> subscribers aware of the lists, so they can set up their mail filters
> appropriately. Memos, which end up in a folder filled with the traffic
> of other fedora lists, would be less helpful.
> 
> What about a news feed for such memos?

A news feed is good, but there should always be a mail channel as
well. There do exist some mail2feed software that can make an
announce list to a news feed I suppose.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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