[outages] Wiki stuff

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:13:27PM +0100, John Fox wrote:
>    Ive quite enjoyed the off topic discussion. Where can i sign up for
>    that as well as the outages stuff?


Ok, I'll expand and formalize my suggestion.

I think that the best approach to this would be to set up an OTRS (or RT)
install which receives the mail for outages@, and which automatically
subscribes all tickets to outages-notify@ *and* outages-discuss at .

The Mailman instance can then handle outages-notify (a broadcast list
which only the OTRS can post to) and outages-discuss, a general
subscription list, where everyone can talk about the tickets, but OTRS
won't hear it.

Users who only want notices subscribe to -notify, users who like the
chat subscribe to -discuss, people who have actual content to
contribute about the outage (which we can all hash out what we mean
by), can actually reply to the OTRS postings to -notify (which must
not mung Reply-To), and those posts will go on the ticket and also to
the two lists.

How's that sound, folks?

Cheers,
-- jr 'why yes, I am a systems analyst with 25 years in email' a
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