[Fsfe-uk] List status (please read ;)

[Alex Hudson]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:28, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
> Is it just me or is it affecting everyone ....this delay in mail 
> delivery is affecting the effectiveness of the list very badly.

It's gnu.org misbehaving again. It seems to be coming and going quite
unpredictably at the moment.

> PS: I wish we have a publicity mechanism which would facilitate more 
> explicit discussion away from this list.

Some of us talked previously about a specialised affs-pr list, intended
for alerts to news items, responses, etc. I'm fairly reticent to go
about creating a separate list, though, since the traffic we have is
often a bit up and down and it seems somewhat devisive.

Certainly, the idea of setting up affs-discuss seems to have merit at
the moment. As most people will be aware, fsfe-uk is not the AFFS list
(despite the name people give it in their address books ;) - AFFS
doesn't really have a list at the moment. Creating our own would mean
our mail gets relayed on a lightly loaded server in this country, rather
than a heavily loaded one in the US. Would people be willing to
subscribe to a new list? 

Also, do people see any merit in an affs-pr list? There are some tasks
that would be useful to perform on that list - design & content of the
new AFFS leaflet, for example - but I'm not sure how long they will
last. The danger is, of course, that we prevent people from
participating in some discussions by having them in many different
places.

Cheers,

Alex.