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

Fri May 23 15:37:24 UTC 2008

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
>