[Foundation-l] Proposal: foundation-announce-l

[Benjamin Lees]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> I propose the foundation-announce-l mailing list be set up with the
> following posting rules:
> 1) One post per person per thread.  That includes the initiator of the
> thread.


That's not how announcement lists work.  The whole point of an announcement
list is that the only posts on it will be announcements; and for the list to
be useful, the announcements have to be limited to those that are important
to the list's topic (which is usually narrowly defined) and of interest to
the subscribers—which generally means that only people in positions of
authority are allowed to post.  mediawiki-announce and toolserver-announce
are good examples.