BALUG list policies have been tweaked slightly.
Most notably, if one isn't subscribed to "announce" but is subscribed to other BALUG list(s), one may be added to "announce" - there's also an exception procedure for those that don't want to be (semi-)automatically added to "annouce" based upon not being subscibed to "announce" but being subscribed to other BALUG lists.
references: http://www.balug.org/#Lists http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-admin-balug.org