Hi, Since you are cc-ing anyways, might as well have only one list.
To get subcribers attention to an announcement you might consider writing in the subject line with [ANNOUCEMENT] followed by the announcement title. Simplicity rules. Nizan MD On 7/31/07, openehr-clinical-request at openehr.org < openehr-clinical-request at openehr.org> wrote: > > Send openEHR-clinical mailing list submissions to > openehr-clinical at openehr.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > openehr-clinical-request at openehr.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > openehr-clinical-owner at openehr.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of openEHR-clinical digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Question of net etiquette for this community (Thomas Beale) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:59:02 +0100 > From: Thomas Beale <thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> > Subject: Question of net etiquette for this community > To: Openehr-Technical <openehr-technical at openehr.org>, For openEHR > clinical discussions <openehr-clinical at openehr.org> > Message-ID: <46AF15F6.5030408 at oceaninformatics.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > Dear all, > > sometimes we make 'announcements' to the openehr-announce list - > messages globally applicable to all in the community, such as changes to > the website or licenses or whatever. Currently we have to cc: these to > other lists, due to the fact that not everyone is on the announce list > (about 135 out of many hundreds). Making announcements (which are very > few - traffic averages I would say 1/month) thus means that we have to > do this cc:ing, and it means some of you receive repeats. > > Should we: > > 1. ask everyone to subscribe to the announce list (we could > automatically subscribe those 135 people since we can work out the > addresses from the mail system), meaning there is only ever one source > for openEHR announcments, and no repeated posts for people on more than > one list (the vast majority)? > > 2. just continue as we are, and do the cc:ing, creating repeats? > > Could we have a few responses to see what people think. In particular, > would people see the automatic subscription of the 135 people not on the > announce list, to that list, an acceptable thing to do? I personally > would argue yes, since we only culled the addresses from other openEHR > lists, not from elsewhere, and presumably being on some other list means > that you are interested in announcements about openEHR in general. > > - thomas beale > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > > End of openEHR-clinical Digest, Vol 10, Issue 32 > ************************************************ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20070731/15276863/attachment.html>
