Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-09 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Fri, 08 Nov 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > Where they come in handy, I think, are digest users and lists with > infrequent postings. the busier a list, the less the monthly posting > probably matters. The less frequently a list is used, the more it's > useful just as a "hi, rmember us?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:55:57 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 08:48 PM, J C Lawrence wrote: >> Okay, but that doesn't explain the rash of unsubscribes every month >> on an otherwise active discussion list. > have you checked to see whether some (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 08:48 PM, J C Lawrence wrote: Okay, but that doesn't explain the rash of unsubscribes every month on an otherwise active discussion list. have you checked to see whether some (or all) of those people had set themselves nomail? Did they go nomail thinking they

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread J C Lawrence
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 fou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 02:35 PM, J C Lawrence wrote: Writing as an admin: Yes, I like and want the monthly reminders and I don't want them any less frequent. Why? I'm fairly convinced that they save me from, "unsubscribe me!" messages. I rank the usefulness of these things this way:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Satya
On Nov 8, 2002 at 10:44, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: [original poster said] >>> Please consider switching the base code of mailman to send quarterly >>> instead >>> of monthly 'reminders' to subscribers. As an avid subscriber of >>> lists, it's >>> annoying to get these messages every month, when e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:44:35 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monthly is traditional, but I think it's worthy of some thought. With > the List-* headers in the message, and the footer that traditionally > points to the info pages (and with 2.1, that can be customized to the > us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Please consider switching the base code of mailman to send quarterly instead of monthly 'reminders' to subscribers. As an avid subscriber of lists, it's annoying to get these messages every month, when every 3 or 6 months would suffice. You can change the cron setting. I think he's saying t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Satya
On Nov 7, 2002 at 14:11, Gary Pupurs wrote: >Please consider switching the base code of mailman to send quarterly instead >of monthly 'reminders' to subscribers. As an avid subscriber of lists, it's >annoying to get these messages every month, when every 3 or 6 months would >suffice. You can cha

[Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Gary Pupurs
Please consider switching the base code of mailman to send quarterly instead of monthly 'reminders' to subscribers. As an avid subscriber of lists, it's annoying to get these messages every month, when every 3 or 6 months would suffice. Thanks! -g -