[liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[Yosem Companys]

Also, I will see if I can send a digest of the Liberationtech Twitter
stream once a day to the list...

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Yosem Companys <companys at tmp.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

> My take on this:
>>
>> - I'd rather have two mailing lists only: one for discussions (all type
>>  of discussions) and one for announcements. If everything goes into the
>>  same list, at least have the announcements clearly tagged so they can   be
>> easily filtered.
>>   - An e-mail with news every 10 minutes may be too much. Wouldn't it be
>>  better to have a daily news digest of some sort? Then anyone could   start
>> a discussion based on it.
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>>
>>
>> JMM.
>>
>
> Right now we have an events list, a jobs list, a cfp (call for papers)
> list, and the main list. So the events list is kind of an announcement
> list. But not everyone knows about it, so for Stanford events, we tend to
> post them to the main list.
>
> If there is no opposition, we could replicate the list of subscribers of
> the main list and add them to the events list, with the caveat that it is
> an announcements list.
>
> Alternatively, we could get rid of the events list, and replicate the list
> of subscribers of the main list and add them to a new list that would be
> called liberationtech-announcements.
>
> What do you all think?
>
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