[104689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog-futures] Announce list: Re: Hughes Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri May 23 11:37:49 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
In-Reply-To: <4836CDB3.5030104@spacething.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:37:24 -0400
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, nanog-futures <nanog-futures@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 23, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Sam Stickland wrote:
> Joe Abley wrote:
>>
>> On 22 May 2008, at 23:16, James R. Cutler wrote:
>>
>>> The announcement was made to nanog-announce, but not to nanog. I
>>> would expect that there are scads more readers of nanog than of
>>> nanog announce.
>>
>> When I was sending things to nanog-announce, it was the case that
>> mail to nanog-announce was sent to people who had specifically
>> subscribed to that list, plus anybody who hadn't but who was
>> subscribed to nanog (in other words, it was sent to the union of
>> both lists).
>>
>> That might have changed since the transition to mailman. It seemed
>> like a useful approach, though.
>>
> Kinda makes you wonder what the purpose on the announce list is
> though.
IMHO the purpose is (or should be) that the posting-privileges for
announce is limited, so that messages from
that list about things like changes in format or meeting times can be
treated as authoritative.
Regards
Marshall
> Are there actually people subscribed to nanog-annouce that aren't
> subscribed to nanog?
>
> Sam
>
