[Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list

[Tilman Bayer]

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

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Tilman Bayer
Movement Communications
Wikimedia Foundation