[Fsatom-comm] New committee ; mailing lists

[Konrad Hinsen]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:36, Xavier Gonze wrote:

>   is also not hard to find : the traffic volume has changed from
>   low to high. During the workshop, I remember discussing the

Let's say medium - high is tens of messages per day on my scale.

>   creation of another mailing list (was it at the committee meeting ?),
>   to be called fsatom-forum. This list has been created by Miguel,
>   yesterday. This would be our high-traffic list (and people weakly
>   interested by general discussions would not be registered).
>   The fsatom list would remain low traffic, for those weakly interested
>   people (I think we need a low traffic mailing list, with a large number
>   of registered people, in order to reach them easily).

In my experience, it is not possible to differentiate mailing lists by 
intended traffic, there has to be a rather clear definition of topic. 
Otherwise no one will be sure which list to send a particular posting to, and 
will end up sending it to both, which defies the original intention.

What we can and perhaps should do is to have an "annoucement" list where new 
events, workgroups, mailing lists, etc. can be announced, but with strictly 
no discussion. Such a list would typically be set up as "moderated", i.e. 
every message has to be accepted by one of the moderators. But as soon as a 
list is open for general discussion, no matter on what subject, it will have 
fluctuating traffic.

Konrad.
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