Announce was originally intended to hold meeting announcements, etc.  It 
automatically forwarded stuff to discuss.  It was there for the people who 
wanted to know what/when/where but not need to filter it all through the 
other stuff that comes through discuss.  Used as intended, it can be valuable.

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:40, you wrote:
> I would suggest that the announce list should be made into an umbrella list
> that just sends out to all the other lists, but leave it able to be
> subscribed to incase thats all you want... and then just start actually
> using it.
>
> Brian Cluff
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > The last-minute cancellation of the West Side meeting did not
> > make it onto the plug-announce list.  Anyone relying on that
> > list will have wasted a trip to GCC.
> >
> > The web page <http://plug.phoenix.az.us/mail-list.shtml>
> > currently says this:
> >   For announcements of upcoming meetings/events join the
> >   announcement list ....
> >
> > If we offer a low-volume list for announcements, then all
> > the announcements should go there.  Or we should just
> > post a final announcement, saying if you want to know what's
> > going on, join plug-discuss and watch it for announcements.
> >
> > I recommend we remove the plug-announce list.  Last thing
> > that was announced was the RMS speech in October.
> >
> > I received e-mail (to "webmaster") a couple of weeks ago from a
> > new prospect, asking if the December 18th meeting was for real.
> > I told him that it was probably solid, and I suggested he join
> > the lists.  I also mentioned that I'd seen no cancellations in
> > my few months with PLUG, and that enough folks attended the
> > GCC meetings he probably was not at risk of being the only one.
> > Hopefully he joined plug-discuss, not just plug-announce, so he
> > wasn't left out in the cold tonight.
> >
> > In my experience, a given community subscribes to a single list
> > and puts all their posts there.  Should we have multiple lists
> > or not?  I've just rarely seen it work, because people don't
> > naturally think about what lists they're posting to.
> >
> > The plug-discuss list does get pretty chatty at times, but
> > Steve's message contained the word "meeting" which should be
> > enough of a trigger for someone's attention if they were
> > ignoring most of the chitchat.  One could set up a filter
> > to ignore all messages not containing "meeting", "today",
> > "tonight", "cancel", "cancelled", etc.
> >
> > So, how about dropping that list?  It probably would be a
> > lot easier than making it reliable.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I have just added yet another note to our
> > main page stressing that the Discussion list is where to be.
> >
> > Vic
> >
> > foodog wrote re:  No WestSide December meeting
> >
> > > Nancy Reagan's astrologer tells me that the stars bode ill for a
> > > December meeting.  Good enough for me!!
> > >
> > > Seriously though, I can't make it, nothing's prepared and this
> > > will give us time to get something great together to start the
> > > new year with.
> > >
> > > Next WestSide meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15, 2002.
> > > *All* 2002 Westside meetings are scheduled for the THIRD TUESDAY
> > > of each month.
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
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