On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > How much do you hate mailman for all those "here is a reminder of your > mailing list memberships" messages?
They're only slightly irritating and I get a dozen of them every month. If they wouldn't show up on lists that I'd actually been active on I'd probably read some lists more often. > Happy mailman day? Or curse mailman day? Whatever mailman day. After deleting six thousand spam per month, deleting a dozen mailman messages is going to hurt you? > I can see this as a really good way to piss people off. It's possible to use it to piss people off, but people can procmail it or do other things and if it were done right it would help weed out dead wood on CPAN and that's helpful. As I understand it this wouldn't affect module authors who have updated versions or clicked somewhere saying "I haven't whithered away at my desk yet". And it wouldn't have to be sent out except maybe every quarter (or longer for people that didn't respond to the previous ping). It doesn't seem that would generate much flack. Maybe the e-mail should do something informative like list how many years, months and days it's been since a given module has been updated. Some weak souls might be guilted into pushing out bug fixes sooner. -- </chris> The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)
