[Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list

[Bence Damokos]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9 August 2011 01:24, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just to check: I've been assuming of late that everyone that's interested in reading announcements (including things like chapter reports, committee reports and signpost issues) is subscribed to the wikimediaannounce-l mailing list - is that a valid assumption, or should reports continue to be sent to this list?
>>
>> I'm not subscribed to the announcements list. The idea was that
>> everything that goes to the announcements list would also go here (as
>> would replies to anything on the announcements list). That was
>> supposed to be automatic, but I think there were some problems getting
>> it to work. Could someone have another go? There must be some way to
>> do it... (if you can't just subscribe one list to the other, how about
>> creating a new email address that just forwards everything to
>> foundation-l and subscribing that to the announcements list?)
>
> Ral315 and I spent some time figuring out how, but now it seems to
> work: Messages from WikimediaAnnounce-l are being forwarded to
> Foundation-l again.
>
> And Geoff had the (unwitting) honor of re-inaugurating the gateway ;)
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068171.html
>

It might just be me, but I think the forwarding only works if one is
subscribed to the foundation-l list with the e-mail address he uses
for the wikimediaannounce-l.
(At least I got a notice that the letter I sent to WA-l just now was
rejected due to spam.)

Best regards,
Bence