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

[Joe Klemmer]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:

>> Okay, but Fedora is the distribution released by the Fedora Project, so
>> related announcements should be of interest to anyone having to do
>> something with Fedora. The online list archive shows that only a very few
>> announcements have been made before.
>> 
> Humm. I think you are confirming  what I said. If every user should be in 
> both, since they have something to do with Fedora, why to separated lists?

 	You're looking at this backwards.  No one "should" be on the 
fedora-list.  It's likely most people will be but it's not a critical 
list.  However the announce list is the one list that should have 
everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, even remotely dealing with fedora 
subscribed to.  The announce list should be mandatory if anything should 
be.

>>> Even in a high volume list like "Fedora-list", if I see a header 
>>> "[INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM - Urgent] ..." I will read the message.
>> 
>> Only if you read the list on a daily basis or if you know what
>> special subject marker to search for in your filters.
>
> Yes. I read the list every day.

 	Most of us don't.  I'm lucky if I can get through it once a week. 
If you'd like to personally forward all announce announcements to everyone 
who can't read all the lists daily that could solve the problem.

>>> 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?
>
> If I remember right, the announcements in airports or train stations are 
> made to all users and it's user's responsibility to decide what to do.
>
> Now image the opposite situation, that you have to go to a specific 
> place, a room, to have announcements. I think that the life of travelers 
> would be much more difficult.

 	I think it might be a problem of language here.  On the 'Net, an 
"announce" list is akin to being an important/emergency/manditory 
information list.  If you ever run across a <listname>-announce that's the 
one list you must subscribe to.

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