Re: [Fsfe-uk] [Proposal] Mailing lists

[Andrew Savory]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, MJ Ray wrote:

> On 2003-10-20 12:10:06 +0100 Andrew Savory <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > affs-members-discuss wasn't my intention: affs-members is intended for
> > mails to members only (not necessarily discussion, as that would
> > reduce
> > traffic on affs-discuss which is a bad thing).
>
> For what purpose?  Announcements?  Advertising to members?  Vote
> drafting?  I'm not just sure whether you are after something like
> debian-devel, spi-members or the newsletter address list and where it
> fits between -announce and -discuss.

Anything that needs to be sent to members, but that isn't necessarily
appropriate for a public discussion list. So:

- newsletter (as you mentioned)
- requests (eg "we need AFFS members to man the stand at linux expo")
- votes (since it's members-only we know all votes are valid)
- etc


Andrew.

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