On 21Feb2022 1339, Petr Viktorin wrote:
I still don't quite see how inactive subscribers make the list worse. Could you elaborate on that?
They are not actively contributing, but they are actively receiving emails that the senders assume are only going to those actively participating in the community. This particular community comes with an explicit agreement to *not* share the contents of other people's emails in public, but when thousands of "participants" are merely listening and collecting, nobody actually knows who they are or what their intentions are now. It's also explicitly not supposed to be a list for lurking.
All of this is listed on https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/core-mentorship.python.org/
(I'm not sure if it's been updated since this discussion started though, but in my head all of these things were *always* true about this list.)
So I'm fully supportive of culling the list of inactive members, assuming that there are still active members and contributors. I'm not on it, but if others say that they are and there are people still receiving helpful communications, then I have no reason to disbelieve that. Removing inactive members is an easy way to help the list *remain* welcoming, rather than merely claiming it, and is in line with our written policies for the list.
I'd also put out a post saying that we've done it, explaining the reasoning, and essentially advertising that, yeah, we take seriously people's ability to ask for help without becoming a public spectacle. Might even get more people taking an interest.
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