Mailing lists - was Re: London.pm Beer Festival, Edgar Wallace, TOMORROW, Thursday 2009-07-16

[Ben Evans]

Andrew Black wrote:
> Léon Brocard wrote:
>> 2009/7/17 James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Our glorious leader prefers only to announce socials and techmeets,
>>> hence why I posted it to this list only.
>
> I think there is scope for a london.pm social list
> Not moderated and where you can post emergency socials, informal meets 
> and so on.
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We're a social lot and always have been. AFAIC, the main list, plus 
announce is where these types of announcements belong.

>>
>> Emails posted to the -announce list also go to other non-Perl announce
>> lists. We shouldn't spam them too often.
>
> Indeed. The main issue I am aware is that announce -> gllug-social 
> list where it raises hackles from anti perl brigade.

Why would a "social" group not want to be informed of relevant, and 
usually very pleasant pubmeets?

If they don't think it's relevant ot their interests, they can always unsub.

Ben