<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>My experience is the counterpoint to yours: I unsbscribed from Announce when the inestimable Ms. Kelly started forwarding all the content here, because it became redundant to be on both.<br /><br />The plaintext format is a nice bonus to the current state of things, and I don't really care one way or the other because it requires no work on my part. Selfishly I guess I like Ms. Kelly doing extra work because it saves me bothering to launch and close a PDF viewer. ;-)<br /><br />AF</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">I, too, wondered when I first moved to town why the lists were separate. I joined them all, but over the long haul I realized that the Town Announce was not something I actually read with any regularity. (This for two reasons: I rarely can attend 7pm meetings since my commute precludes that, and I also do not like the PDF style emails.) I have since unsubscribed, but still get the content from Kate which I usually just delete in my inbox.<br>
<br>If we are going to get the content one way or the other, my preference would be to merge the two lists.<br><br>Liz LaGarde<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Dwight Holmes <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've always been in favor of combining the lists. I would prefer that the town announcements be posted in simple text rather than PDF - it's not like they are long documents or anything, and it makes them inaccessible on my dumb smart phone.<br>
<br>I know there's a history to this, and assume others will chime in.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Sarah Wayland <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5">I don't need the double posts (one on Town Announce and one on Town Talk.) I actually find it kind of annoying that I subscribe to Town Announce, and then get the same post duplicated on Town Talk. But I can use a delete key pretty effectively, so it's not that big a deal. <br>
<br>Does Hyattsville have a town-sponsored list? The only one I know about is HOPE, and that is citizen-run. Does the Hyattsville government post all announcements on HOPE? I subscribe to HOPE and I'm pretty sure they don't. So maybe there's another Hyattsville list I don't know about. <br>
<br>I think we should do whatever is the most effective thing for getting the notice out to everyone about what is going on in town. If that means collapsing the lists, I'm fine with that. If some people really just want to talk about town-related issues and don't want to see notices about town meetings, etc., I'm fine with keeping the lists separate. <br>
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