Paul Tomblin wrote: > >I'm starting to think that my average mailing list user won't remember the >URL they used to subscribe, they don't file away that email they get when >they subscribe with all the instructions, that they don't read the footer >on every message, and they don't read the monthly message.
Sadly, I think this is true, and it argues that for this group of users at least, the reminders are useless anyway. But, for those for whom they are useful, here's a possibility. This is not a promise, but rather a suggestion. I first saw it it a comment by Glen Seib on the wiki <http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+2.2>. The suggestion (with interpretation by me) is that the list owner could provide a text template with substitutable parameters such as list name, user email, user options url, etc. as a list attribute. This could be used to remind users of list procedures and policies, how to get a password reset, whatever you want. It would be sent periodically to all list members. It would not be a list post, so it wouldn't be archived, and it would be personalized even if the list normally wasn't. To bring this thread back around to its beginning, there could also be a mechanism to treat a bounce of this message differently from a bounce of a post or digest. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
