* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-29 12:50]: > I wonder if I need to implement some kind of mechanism that > requires you to either send a message to the mailing list or > else renew your subscription every 3 months. Does anybody have > any experience with other mailing lists that require such > measures?
I've never seen that anywhere else, probably because none of the popular mailing list managers include such a feature. Mailman tries to deal with the problem by sending membership reminder mails on every first of the month, but that's hardly ideal. I am subscribed to lists managed on so many different hosts that I used to get flooded at the start of every month (two-dozen-odd reminders), so eventually I wrote a recipe to trash these reminders before I even see them. Your scheme is not airtight either: writing a filter recipe to autorespond to renewal mails is a pretty easy task. But not many people are likely to actually do that. You'd want to check whether it's actually unsubscribing anyone after several months of running it, though, to make sure you aren't just bugging lurkers for no benefit. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
