[Novalug] A Suggestion about our E-lists for Tux.Org people, and for us all

[Alan McConnell]

I am getting three times as much E-mail as I need to get, and so are
many others.  For a person who needs help here wants to cast her/his
net as wide as possible; so (s)he posts to all three of our "local"
E-lists, novalug, ma-linux, and dclug.   And all repliers have to
reply to all, etc etc etc.  And many of us are on all three E-lists.

This can be fixed, I believe, using a mailman concept called
umbrella lists.

I would like the respected Honchos of Tux.org, together with the
owners/admins of novalug, dclug, and ma-linux, to get together
and work out a hierarchy of these E-lists, seeing exactly what
each list is for and what messages need to be one which list.
This needs meetings, and pencil and paper, and negotiation; but
it shouldn't be too hard.

Once a policy is worked out, it should be announced, and our
usual peer pressure discipline should be invoked.  

Am I being too ambitious/quixotic?  Comments?

Best wishes,

Alan

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