On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:30:57 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 02:35 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
> I'd argue it's more likely the footer for discussion lists. I did some > experimenting with regular postings a few years ago (way pre-mailman), > and found that there wasn't much difference between posting bi-weekly, > monthly, and not at all, at least in terms of helping the casual > user. They don't keep a copy of it, so it's never there when they want > it (so they simply blat at the list). And the more often you post it, > the more likely people simply tune it out as noise. That's one reason > why I started experimenting with footer language instead, and > pre-mailman, simply stopped sending regular postings. It just seemed > like they were mostly bit-bucketed. Okay, but that doesn't explain the rash of unsubscribes every month on an otherwise active discussion list. > Personally, I think monthly is "about right". I'm not ready to do away > with them, especially since 2.1 can hook the bounce systme into > them. but I'm still unsure just what good they do, either. <nod> -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
