Re: [Nanog-futures] Announce list: Re: Hughes Network

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

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