Hello all, Some projects have "announce" lists, which are very low volume lists. This is where new versions of the project are announced, and possibly other major announcements. The nice thing about these "announce" lists is that they're low volume. You can subscribe to the announce list of a project you like, and trust that you do *not* get emails every day from people who are asking for support about using the project. Assuming, of course, that the project manager has a strict discipline and is not tempted to post non-major things to the announce list. Which is where I see a problem with using librelist for such lists. I want to make an announce list for my project GarlicSim, but I feel personally responsible to keep the announce list low volume. And I understand that in librelist I can't stop anyone from posting. Is there a solution to this? Ram.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:30:05PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > Hello all, > > Some projects have "announce" lists, which are very low volume lists. This > is where new versions of the project are announced, and possibly other > major announcements. > Is there a solution to this? I'm pretty sure people will do what you say if you tell them. -- Zed A. Shaw http://zedshaw.com/
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:30:05PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Some projects have "announce" lists, which are very low volume lists. > This > > is where new versions of the project are announced, and possibly other > > major announcements. > > > Is there a solution to this? > > I'm pretty sure people will do what you say if you tell them. > > -- > Zed A. Shaw > I assume you mean that I will tell them to not post to the announce list. But once in a while I will post "GarlicSim 1.2.3 released" and someone will post back "Wow that's cool!", wasting the time of everyone who is subscribed to the announce list. Ram.
cool-RR wrote: > I assume you mean that I will tell them to not post to the announce list. But once in a while I will post "GarlicSim 1.2.3 released" and someone will post back "Wow that's cool!", wasting the time of everyone who is subscribed to the announce list. Is that a question? Can we help in some way? Is there a solution for your problem that still seems consistent with the free spirit of librelist? -- http://josephholsten.com
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>wrote: > cool-RR wrote: > > I assume you mean that I will tell them to not post to the announce list. > But once in a while I will post "GarlicSim 1.2.3 released" and someone will > post back "Wow that's cool!", wasting the time of everyone who is subscribed > to the announce list. > > Is that a question? Can we help in some way? Is there a solution for your > problem that still seems consistent with the free spirit of librelist? > -- > http://josephholsten.com > I was guessing there isn't and that librelist could never be used for this purpose, but I asked just in case someone will have a good idea how to do it. Ram.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:08:32PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>wrote: > > I was guessing there isn't and that librelist could never be used for this > purpose, but I asked just in case someone will have a good idea how to do > it. You should try it first. I think you're just too focused on the "right way" that it should be done and really your worry probably isn't that important. In other words: relax, you'll live longer. -- Zed A. Shaw http://zedshaw.com/
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:08:32PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Joseph Holsten < > joseph@josephholsten.com>wrote: > > > > I was guessing there isn't and that librelist could never be used for > this > > purpose, but I asked just in case someone will have a good idea how to do > > it. > > You should try it first. I think you're just too focused on the "right > way" that it should be done and really your worry probably isn't that > important. > > In other words: relax, you'll live longer. > > -- > Zed A. Shaw > http://zedshaw.com/ > Well, I hope you're right. Ram.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, cool-RR <cool-rr@cool-rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:08:32PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Joseph Holsten < >> joseph@josephholsten.com>wrote: >> > >> > I was guessing there isn't and that librelist could never be used for >> this >> > purpose, but I asked just in case someone will have a good idea how to >> do >> > it. >> >> You should try it first. I think you're just too focused on the "right >> way" that it should be done and really your worry probably isn't that >> important. >> >> In other words: relax, you'll live longer. >> >> -- >> Zed A. Shaw >> http://zedshaw.com/ >> > > Well, I hope you're right. > > Ram. > Just today I had an idea regarding this issue. Maybe Librelist should detect when a list's name ends with "announce", and then deal with it using a different algorithm than from regular lists? How that algorithm will work is an open question, of course, because deciding who is allowed to post on the announce list is a potentially problematic decision. But I think we can come up with something which will mostly work. What do you think? Ram.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 06:35:08PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > Just today I had an idea regarding this issue. Maybe Librelist should detect > when a list's name ends with "announce", and then deal with it using a > different algorithm than from regular lists? How that algorithm will work is > an open question, of course, because deciding who is allowed to post on the > announce list is a potentially problematic decision. But I think we can come > up with something which will mostly work. I thought of things like that, but I couldn't quite figure out how you'd handle "ownership". -- Zed A. Shaw http://zedshaw.com/
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 06:35:08PM +0200, cool-RR wrote: > > Just today I had an idea regarding this issue. Maybe Librelist should > detect > > when a list's name ends with "announce", and then deal with it using a > > different algorithm than from regular lists? How that algorithm will work > is > > an open question, of course, because deciding who is allowed to post on > the > > announce list is a potentially problematic decision. But I think we can > come > > up with something which will mostly work. > > I thought of things like that, but I couldn't quite figure out how you'd > handle "ownership". > > -- > Zed A. Shaw > I agree, determining ownership will be the most sensitive issue. I don't have a bulletproof solution, but I thought of a few sort-of-good-enough solutions: (Feel free to modify) - Giving ownership to the person who created the announce list. - Giving ownership to the person who created the original list. For example, if Joe created foo@librelist.org, Joe gets automatic ownership of foo.announce@librelist.org. - Having some voting procedure. For example, if there is a dispute over who owns foo.announce@librelist.org, a ballot is started between members of foo@librelist.org, which will determine who will own the announce list. - Dispensing with the ownership concept, but when a message is posted on foo.announce@librelist.org, it is first sent to several of the heavy users of foo@librelist.org. They get a chance to report it as non-worthy before it gets sent to other list members. Ram.