[linux-elitists] Announcements and local events (was: The North American Free Software Conference: Freedom-IT)

[Ben Finney]

On 19-Oct-2007, Peter Lowe wrote:
> Do people on this list rely on it for notifications of interesting 
> events that they wouldn't hear about elsewhere?

Interesting events of worldwide impact, yes (e.g. free software 
happenings). Though, on a mailing list, discussion starters are of 
more interest than one-way announcements. The latter are better served 
on a web page with a syndication feed.

> Do people sending adverts for local events believe they are reaching 
> people who are likely to attend, who don't already know about it?

Not I. Local events are not of interest unless they're local to me; 
and I already have plenty of sources to tell me about those.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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