On Tue, 7 Jun 1994 15:22:49 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >On Mon, 6 Jun 1994 21:21:23 -0500 "Robert A. Hayden" ><[log in to unmask]> said: > >>Well, I would like to put a tiny protest into this. I think that the >>announcements should have gone to the lists, NOT to the people. > >The reason we do it that way is that many people subscribe to all 5 >lists. The announcements can be rather large, and getting 5 copies can >definitely clutter your mailbox or waste a lot of download time if you >read your mail at home via POP. Eric, I have a proposal which I am posting here for discussion. For the sake of brevity, I won't crosspost this to any of the other Listserv oriented groups that some of us get. My proposal is simple. Eric, why not set up a list where people can subscribe to it if and only if they want to receive your L-Soft announcements? This might add an extra layer of work in order for people on this list to subscribe to your group, however, the idea still makes a lot of sense to me. In a sense, this is what you have already set up with the difference being that each of us would sign up on our own without your help from whichever network address we want to use in order to receive announcements from L-Soft. This way, those of us who subscribe to Lstsrv-L and Lstown-L, etc. from different addresses for each list can get only one copy of the postings and we can get them where we want them. For example, I use one account for reading Lstsrv-L mail and a separate one for reading Lstown-L mail so with your current method of distributing the L-Soft announcements, I get two copies of the info. I actually don't mind the multipication of information, however, some poeple I am sure would prefer to only get one copy of each announcement. Further, you could also put L-Soft's announcements on your L-Soft list's archive so that people who miss the initial posting of these announcements can get them easily. What you also might alway want do is to post a brief announcement on other related lists about the new L-Soft announcements list and any new announcements as those announcements are posted to the L-Soft list. Does this make sense? Stan Horwitz Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM Temple University -- Senior Consultant (My views are all mine!) Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists and Listserv Postmaster.