On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Vishnu t <visdaviva@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Karthik,

On 17 May 2013 13:42, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

I suggest we have an announcement mailing list.

I second others who have suggested against another Announcement list.

I sometimes see certain mails flooding too mailing list, and it really spams the inbox.

Yes, I do face this problem. Often, nowadays, with the mails sent from A2K itself :(

If we have an announcement list, we can suggest everyone to subscribe to the list who is interested in announcement from Indian communities like the Chapter , the A2K and various other cities and languages communities.

Speaking for A2K, even if we have an Announcement list, we would still like to send mails to all the mailing lists. I do understand that this spams the inbox of people like you and I, who are subscribed to multiple lists. However, I feel sending information to all the India mailing lists is an essential part of being transparent, participatory and accountable to the Indian Wikimedia community. Thus, I would suggest that Chapter and A2K should not desist from proactive disclosure of information pertaining to the work we do.

Hello Vishnu, I don't personally indicate A2K here, I did specify that this is applicable for generally; i.e. also for the Chapter and other communities. I also second Rahmanuddin Shaik for adding something like Announcement: so that people are aware that this is just an announcement, which indirectly means that your comments. We should also encourage people to post their comments on some other place like Meta Wiki, Wikipedia, or WMIN Wiki. This will also keep record of for all communication, and it will also keep our inbox clean. I have seen recently that many mails from the Wikimedia India mailing list reach spam list instead of inbox, and that's really sad. We end up missing various mails.

I'll also echo what Arun and all have expressed here. I'm really happy and thankful that everyone came up here with your opinion :)

Regards,

Karthik.

Best regards,
Vishnu

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