A question for those running their own OSS projects

[Madison Kelly]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Just post an announcement to a couple _related_ mailing lists
> when you make a major release.  If it's good and it's needed,
> people find it pretty soon.
> 
> behdad

I've been thinking of that but I always worry it will come off as spam. 
How would you suggest approaching a message to annouce the first release 
of a new program on a list like, say, this one and not potentially 
offend/anger users?

Madison
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