How about an "announcements" mailing list?

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How about an "announcements" mailing list?

#1 Post by derb »

Rather than making people sign up for the message board and return to it from time to time to see how things are going?

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#2 Post by Zanzibar »

What's so bad about reading the message board??

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#3 Post by Aquitaine »

We have one. Freeorion-announce. It's a sourceforge mailing list, I think there are links off our main site.

We only use it for major announcements, though. We don't 'make' people do anything. :)
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#4 Post by derb »

I like the messageboard but it's not always easy to find the "offical progress update" (if there is any) among all the other messages. A simple summary now and then (every few months even) might be enough for most people. Certainly for journalists, for example..

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#5 Post by Aquitaine »

We do give that sort of update on our website, http://www.freeorion.org, and we also use the mailing list for that. We haven't made an announcement in a few months, because the next announcement is v0.1, and I am currently trying to get a line on when that might be. :)
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#6 Post by derb »

Oops - sorry - I didn't know about http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list ... n-announce because I arrived directly at http://www.artclusta.com/bb/ rather than via http://www.freeorion.org/

I've just signed up for the mailing list and will get out of your hair - unless that is you start commenting on my feature suggestions!

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