Maybe we need a "detailed announce" list, where I can send stable build updates and so on to?
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:52:34AM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2003, panamerica334 at gmx.net wrote: > > > why aren't these cc'd to the annouce list? > > In the past, it's only been version number increases that have been posted > to the announce list. I can't speak for the actual reason for this, but > it makes sense to me. > > I've often received "announcements" from various places. I hadn't done > anything with those places in a long time, but I couldn't complain about > the email, since I *had* signed up to receive announcements. In the > process, I was reminded about this thing that I had once been interested > in and had dropped, thinking it needed more time to develop, or that I > wasn't quite ready for it. Being reminded of it, I went to check it out > again. I've never been in this situation with Freenet, but there may be > those who are. > > They check out Freenet, sign up for the announcements, find that they > don't like Freenet for whatever reason, and give up. A month later, they > get an announcement about a new release with all these nifty new > improvements, and they maybe consider trying again. If they don't, they > just delete the email, and end up going through the same thing again a > month later. If they were getting an email from this project they weren't > interested in every week, then simply unsubscribing from the list would > become an attractive option. > > At least, that's the way I'd react. I like announcment lists that allow > me to use them that way. > > -todd > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030522/76a4fcc9/attachment.pgp>
