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

[Angelo Bertolli]

Alan McConnell wrote:
> 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?
>   

I was thinking the same thing, but I wasn't sure if this was possible.  
Does it work like "whoever is a member of ma-linux is automatically a 
member of the other two" or something like that?  I wouldn't mind 
responding to just one address.  I've also noticed that the nova list is 
much more active than the others.

Angelo