oms101@freeuk.com writes:

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Announce - Announcements for all things Alug (meetings, etc.) Makes sence to me we currently use main for this and if we are all dividing up the groups we need one central point to look at and subscribe to with very low posting numbers.

No, we don't use main for this. There's announce@lists.alug.org.uk, but no-one else ever seems to want to post to it (HintHint). I also try to pick the best bits of the main list for it, too.

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Main - Meetings discussion, Linux (installing/config) help/discussion, etc Is not this Main's job as well as install issues and configuration

Yep, I think help should stay on main. I think we probably should re-open the old discussion about what people want to see on here. Well, anyone else got opinions on it? Anyone able to write a really great summary of what we want to see on main? I'll add it to the welcome message and web site if you do.

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Social - BBQs a plenty, vaguley Linux related meets and greets, etc. OK some people want to filter out sillyness.

Moo. Actually, it's more to give an outlet for this group of people on things that are really off-topic on the main list, just to avoid having some of the more flammable members calling people "ignorant pigs" (whoops there go the content filters again). More people should subscribe to it (HintHint).

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Developers - discussion for any developers out there (coding, IDEs, etc) Is not this as central to linux as playing with the config and more of a main list thing, if this is going to happen maybe a sysadmin list should exist.

Maybe hackers@lists.alug might be a better name? I think that there are some people who just want to *use* Linux for interesting tasks, rather than hacking around all day. Or does everyone like to hear about the latest tech as well as seeing questions answered and meetings organised?

I know not all of us have toll free internet but at least all our mails are plain text so the band width is not that bad. [...]

I think it's more a human problem than a practical one. Some people just can't read 1000 mails/week, which is what we'd surely do if we let this list go wild. PS - Owen, your mail client appears to truncate subject lines :-/ -- MJR Thesis watch: 27% This is my personal web site =-> http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.alug.org.uk/ <-- This is the LUG I go to I work for this clever internet developer ==> http://www.luminas.co.uk/