I've actually been figuring out the "right" way to send an email to the people subscribed to the LOPSA mailing lists who aren't members, sort of as an advertisement.
One of the things that I want to start doing is sending an email to discuss@whenever a LOPSAgram comes out, and include the headlines, but not the bodies, with a "You could read the rest if you were a member" kind of thing. We keep getting changeover in the Tech Services Committee leadership, which makes it hard to get things like this off the ground, but I'm convinced that Chan is going to do really great things in the role. I just haven't bombarded him with the, "Hey, lets do fun things to the mailing list" thing yet, either (which is also why there's been no official movement on the mailing list merging). --Matt On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just renewed my membership. A couple of comments: > > * it's not easy to renew! You need to login, then find the one place where > it says "your membership has expired. renew" in a fairly small font. Why > not have a big item beside the "join" button that makes you log in and > automatically takes you to the renewing page? > > * I get yearly emails from organisations I am no longer member part of and > charities I no longer support. I find once a year is fair, and don't > consider it spam. Had I received one of those about LOPSA, I would have > renewed earlier. > > * How difficult would it be to send a "hey you should join!" email to > people who post to one of the mailing lists for the first time that > particular month and who aren't a current member? I think an email per > month as the cost of not paying your dues to be able to post to the mailing > lists is fair. > > -- > Yves. > -- "Today, vegetables... Tomorrow, the world!"
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