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Excerpts from Tom Fifield's message of 2015-11-19 20:00:20 -0800:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to get your thoughts about the OpenStack-Announce list.
> 
> We describe the list as:
> 
> """
> Subscribe to this list to receive important announcements from the 
> OpenStack Release Team and OpenStack Security Team.
> 
> This is a low-traffic, read-only list.
> """
> 
> Up until July 2015, it was used for the following:
> * Community Weekly Newsletter
> * Stable branch release notifications
> * Major (i.e. Six-monthly) release notifications
> * Important security advisories
> 
> and had on average 5-10 messages per month.
> 
> After July 2015, the following was added:
> * Release notifications for clients and libraries (one email per 
> library, includes contributor-focused projects)
> 
> resulting in an average of 70-80 messages per month.
> 
> 
> Personally, I no longer consider this volume "low traffic" :)
> 
> In addition, I have been recently receiving feedback that users have 
> been unsubscribing from or deleting without reading the list's posts.
> 
> That isn't good news, given this is supposed to be the place where we 
> can make very important announcements and have them read.
> 
> One simple suggestion might be to batch the week's client/library 
> release notifications into a single email. Another might be to look at 
> the audience for the list, what kind of notifications they want, and 
> chose the announcements differently.
> 

+1 for that. Or just move them to openstack-dev, and include a summary in
the newsletter. I personally have them auto-archived (something I almost
never do) because I can't actually do anything with the information
in them.