Signing for fedora-announce with fedora-list (was Infrastructure status, 2008-08-16 UTC 1530)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:36:45 +0200 (CEST), Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>
>>> >> Maybe because English is not my native tongue, but the word
>>> >> "announcement" doesn't to suggest something that important.
>>> >
>>> > Announcements at the airport or at the train-station, do you ignore
>>> > them?
>>>
>>> those are broadcasted via speaker and panels and whatever they find at a train
>>> station,
>>> they do not concentrate on one single channel, knowing exactly having people with
>>> high,
>>> middle, low and no experience at all.
>>
>> This is about the word "announcement" and whether it implies anything
>> of importance. How do you know whether an announcement is important
>> to you or not? You need to pay attention to announcements to find out.
>>
>> --
>> Let's rename fedora-announce-list to fedora-important-announce-list ;)
>> and then have users complain that some of the announcements are not
>> considered important enough.
>>
> ok, you are somehow about right, but finding the right medium seems to be the problem
> here...do we bring the mountain to the prophet or the other way around? Even not at the
> train station you have to subscribe to the broadcast...just be there. as you are, if you
> make your update. why not letting tell the update-app, that it does not want to??


How about we just have announcements of the announcement list?


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