I'm actually wondering if we need the automatic monthly list reminders anymore. I was thinking about it today, and John started doing this for us when the FreeDOS email lists were on a different email service (the old fd-dev list, I think) and our web hosting was very different (HTML documents only, no automation). So John's automated reminders were an excellent solution, and I'm really glad he did that for us.
However, things are different now. For one, we have fewer people joining the list, so the same people are seeing the same list reminder, month after month. Maybe a monthly reminder is too frequent. But I think we're pretty unique these days in having a monthly reminder; I don't think other email lists or forums or discussion boards for other open source projects have a monthly reminder. Also, our current FreeDOS email lists are hosted on Sourceforge now, and the Sourceforge list service lets the list administrator add a custom "welcome" message to anyone who joins the email list. I can copy the text of our list rules into that welcome message, so that anyone who joins the email lists will get a copy of the list rules. That seems a good thing to do, regardless. I can also add the full text of the list rules to our "Forums" page on the website. We currently link to the list rules, but the rules can be made more obvious by including the full text right next to where you'd subscribe to the list. That seems an obvious place to put it. (I'm working on the website redesign anyway - albeit slowly - and I can make this part of the update.) With these changes, do we need a monthly list reminder anymore? Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
