In a message dated: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:01:39 EST Bruce Dawson said:
>First, I want to thank Bill for taking the time to respond to Jim. > >For GNHLUG, this presents an interesting challange. How do we let >people/groups "get the word out" to the subsets of our membership >that might be interested *without* disturbing the members who aren't >interested (or even offended). > >I'm thinking that we can have a section on the web site for these >announcements - that won't gate to the mailing list. Or should we have >a separate mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]?) that people who want >to see these things sign up for? > >Are there any other ideas? We already have an [EMAIL PROTECTED], don't we? Why not just use that to announce any changes to the website? We can make a change, add something to the calendar, etc. and have an announcement automagically sent to the announce list. The people who care can hit the site and check it out. That way we accomplish the mission of letting everyone know something's going on, but we don't necessarily inundate people with information they don't care about. If they care, they get the information, if they don't care, they don't get it. Simple, to the point, and it uses existing resources which everyone already knows about, so we don't need to train people to do something different. The calendar program Charlie set up has the ability to mail pre-defined addresses. We could easily set up 'announce' as one of those, and when we add a calendar event, select the 'announce' user to get the mail! -- Seeya, Paul
