On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:18:40PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Count me in with Adam, MJR and Sav, the return of -announce and leave ALUG alone (I'm enjoying the recent threads albeit from a distance). Not sure that -newbie/help is really necessary.
Just my 2p worth.
I'm not sure that the argument about the cost of downloading mail from the really applies. The busiest day I could find was 4th May when I received 159Kb from the list. Assuming a download speed of 3Kb/sec (56 modem) this is 52 seconds. Even paying local call charges this is not a large sum.
Perhaps more to the point is the time taken for people to read their mail. If we try to send each person only what he or she is interested in it would get impossibly complicated, but if we use the subject line to mark clearly what a message is about (and change it when a thread wanders off) then this would be a help.
That said, I am happy with the proposal for an announce list, I just do see the point of fragmenting the main list any further.
Steve.