On 9/26/12, Joseph Wright <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 26/09/2012 12:38, Lars Hellström wrote: >> I'd suggest that you initially set up a dedicated e-mail address which >> redirects to LATEX-L. >> >> The rationale for the latter is that in order to establish a convention, >> it is seldom sufficient to just post the rules and set up the >> administrative machinery; one must also raise communal awareness of the >> convention. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to let >> members of the community observe how others are following the >> convention, but that won't happen if traffic goes to a list only seen by >> team members. >> >> The point of having a dedicated email address is that if it later turns >> out that LATEX-L is getting flooded by this (IMHO unlikely, especially >> in view of how much LATEX-L traffic historically varies anyway) then you >> can change the forward to the team list. Or alternatively switch to some >> manner of digest format. Having a separate email address also simplifies >> regularising the postings before forwarding them, e.g. using a specific >> Subject heading to make it easier to search for these messages later. >> >> Lars Hellström > > All sounds reasonable, with the only issue being I don't actually have > the ability to do anything about it :-) (I'll need to talk to Rainer). > > Assuming it is feasible, what would be a sensible address? My first > thought is > > [log in to unmask] > > or > > [log in to unmask] > > An alternative would be to go with the plan that messages are sent to > the team list (which already exists), and that we (I) post a formalised > message to LaTeX-L before adding to the master list, in a similar way to > how CTAN 'new package' announcements are made. Something like > > *Subject* Module prefix registration: X > > The LaTeX3 module prefix X was registered on <date> with the > following details. > > Module name: ... > ... > > The downside here is that the team (or at least some of us) get the > messages twice. I think that's probably survivable :-) > -- > Joseph Wright The drawback of transferring manually is that one of us has to do it :). I otherwise agree with what you said. Bruno