I vote no. Having a one-time email sent by default when folks join seems a good idea, but a monthly reminder? Overkill in my opinion.
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 22nd, 2022 at 4:40 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
