[Linux-aus] conference mailing lists

[Mark Ellem]

 From my experience with LCA, the delegate mailing list becomes 
available not long before registrations open. The reason for this is so 
delegates can opt into joining the list when they register.

This usually happens roughly 2-4 months before the conference.

Mark.

On 11/08/14 21:51, Russell Coker wrote:
> I'm advising someone who's running a (non-FOSS) conference.  I'd like to know
> how long before a conference starts the delegates' mailing list should be
> established.  My recollection is that LCA does this well, how long before an
> LCA is the mailing list started?
>
> For running a conference mailing list, is there any down-side to using
> Google's free mailing list service?
>