[Nanog-futures] Announce list: Re: Hughes Network

[sam_mailinglists at spacething.org (Sam Stickland)]

Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On 22 May 2008, at 23:16, James R. Cutler wrote:
>
>> The announcement was made to nanog-announce, but not to nanog. I 
>> would expect that there are scads more readers of nanog than of nanog 
>> announce.
>
> When I was sending things to nanog-announce, it was the case that mail 
> to nanog-announce was sent to people who had specifically subscribed 
> to that list, plus anybody who hadn't but who was subscribed to nanog 
> (in other words, it was sent to the union of both lists).
>
> That might have changed since the transition to mailman. It seemed 
> like a useful approach, though.
>
Kinda makes you wonder what the purpose on the announce list is though. 
Are there actually people subscribed to nanog-annouce that aren't 
subscribed to nanog?

Sam