[uug] Alternate mailing list for announcments

[Chris Kosanovich]

  Here is an idea that will probably start a flame war knowing how 
things go on around here, but i was just sitting here thinking that 
there may be "people out there" who don't really want to receive a ton 
of emails from the uug talking about how my dad can beat up your dad and 
my l33t emax rulz ur vi, but at the same time they don't want to 
completely abandon the uug because they feel like helping others who are 
new to *NIX, (and let's face it there are so few things we understand in 
this world, when we find something we do understand it makes us feel 
good to help other people who don't understand it as well as we do) So 
what i was thinking would be good is to set up a mailing list that is 
just an announcement list. The club officers could send emails to it and 
it would just be for things like announcing time and date of an install 
fest, the club meetings, local job postings or other things that people 
would like to hear about without having to listen to the tangents that 
inevitably spawn from such things. If someone had an announcment (such 
as and oss project that they were trying to get people involved in) they 
could send the details to the officers and if it was appropriate then it 
would be sent to the announcement list.
  Maybe i^H err 'my friend' is the only person who would like something 
like this, but i doubt it. If nothing else it would let people easily 
flag the announcements and filter them differently from the rest of the 
email.
  Any way, just my thoughts.

-Chris Kosanovich

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