[sac-board] Re: Newsletter Congrats and Corrections

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:42:27 -0700, Marshall Dailey wrote:

> I still have not received any notice that there is a newsletter... Will I
> ever be added to the distribution?... I'm not angry as I know there have
> been numerous issues getting the letter back to normal, just frustrated.
> 
> I have asked many times to be added back to the distro.

Why does there need to be a special distribution list for the electronic
version of the newsletter?  I thought the initial reason for this was to
avoid sending huge messages through these mailing lists, but now that we
putting them on the SAC web site, why are we trying to maintain yet
another mailing list (and poorly at that too).  The announcements for the
newsletter should be sent to SAC-Announce.

When we first started out E-mailing the newsletter, I was running the
mailing list on my home machine so all messages had to downloaded from the
POP3 mailbox on saguaroastro.org and then resent to all members of the
list.  Since I was connected via dialup, this would have been a major
burden on my part.  So it was decided that the newsletter should be sent
directly.

Since then, the mailing lists have been moved to freelist.org and I have
stopped delivering my E-mail directly (I now pass it to my ISP).  The
latter is why it wasn't too difficult for me to E-mail the newsletter last
fall.

As I said, it's time for the announcement of the newsletter publication to
placed on the announce list.  Then members who aren't on that list can
subscribe themselves.

        -Paul

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