[OSM-talk] Sub-national and regional mailing lists

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Sent: 01 June 2008 5:16 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Sub-national and regional mailing lists
>
>Hi,
>
>   the Wiki warns of "high traffic" on the "talk" list, but the list
>with the highest traffic in the OSM empire is "talk-de"; in May we had
>1951 posts on talk-de (versus 1022 on talk).
>
>We have decided to create an extra mailing list for the 25+ strong
>Berlin community and will likely do so for other equally large
>regional communities in Germany, and I assume that in the not so
>distant future we will also have the equivalent of a "newbies"
>and "dev" list for the German-speaking community.
>
>We're likely to run these lists on the openstreetmap.de server(s)
>in order not to burden central command with setup and maintenance.

I'd suggest you check through the admin list whether setup and maintenance
is an issue. I suspect it's not as long as someone is planning to take
responsibility for maintaining the list(s) itself in the same way as we do
now for all the other ones.
If any new lists are set up away from OSM central it would be sensible to
ensure the admin list knows who is responsible for them as queries may well
come through the main osm channels rather than .de alone. 

Cheers

Andy

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>Frederik
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