Announce only mailing list

[Deb Nicholson]

I'd like people to be able to get news from us without comments. The target is press and other busy, but interested, people who would get notes when we blog and occasional press type email from me.

If there's an off the rack way to have the blogs contents converted via html2text or using a rss2email script, that's cool but otherwise I will write a 1-2 sentence abstract and include the blog link.

I'd be the only poster on this list. People who sign up for it can't reply to the list. In the nitty gritty of permissions, it probably makes sense for Will and Chris to be able to post, but in practice, I don't picture you ever needing to post to that list.

Deb

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Will is properly concerned that the auto-posting is prone to error, so I wonder.. there must be a few sites that do this already. Maybe we can use them?

http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ or http://blogtrottr.com/

Give it http://mediagoblin.org/news/index.xml and your email address and it should work. I think that should satisfy the requirements and avoid another list and another cronjob to maintain.

Is that satisfactory? I can set up a page on the wiki telling people how to do it who are press-like.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

If we're going to go with setting up our own mailing list with mailman, I need the following information:

1. name of the list (GMG Announce ?)
2. email address for the list (announce@mediagoblin.org ?)
3. text for the footer for every email
4. announcement text that you get when you sign up for the list

[Deb Nicholson]

Name: MediaGoblin Announce

Email address: announce@mediagoblin.org is perfect

Footer: This is the low-traffic news list for MediaGoblin (http://mediagoblin.org) If you're interested in getting more involved, consider joining the Dev list at http://lists.mediagoblin.org/listinfo/devel Send your questions to press@mediagoblin.org or visit us in #mediagoblin on freenode.net

Welcome message: Welcome to the low-traffic news list for MediaGoblin! (http://mediagoblin.org) If you're interested in getting more involved, consider joining the Dev list at http://lists.mediagoblin.org/listinfo/devel Send your questions to press@mediagoblin.org or visit us in #mediagoblin on freenode.net

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Deb: Did you see Chris' questions in comment #1? Can you talk about that?

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/517 .

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Announce list created.

Deb: I sent you an email with the details.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

We probably want to blog about this list and also add it to the documentation. Those are tasks for a different issue.