Suggestion we close plug-announce

[Brian Cluff]

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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