I agree with Jay. I'd hate to have to respond to an e-mail ping every
so often just to continue reading the list.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind terribly if I got placed on
"moderated" status (i.e. had to go through a verification step in
order to *post* to the list) if I were either (a) new to the list, or
(b) hadn't posted in a while.
-Eric
On 30 May 2006, at 07:57, Jay Sprenkle wrote:
On 5/30/06, Eugene Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Basically, what I imagined from DRH's original proposal was that
accounts that
have not sent out mails after some period of time would receive an
email
informing them that they will be unsubscribed unless they send a
mail to the
mailing list, or they reply to this notification email, within
some (short)
period of time.
I have qualms about asking people to click on a link, since it may
look like a
bogus email in which the link will take them elsewhere. You know,
like one of
those "your account has expired, click on this link to renew" spam
emails.
I wouldn't want a lot of "I want to stay on the list" mail spamming
the list.
You could sign up an autoresponder email account (like paypal) and
it would stay
signed up forever. It would always respond to the query email with a
reply including
the original text of the message. You'd need to set it up so they had
to reply to a
different email account than the one to send the query mail.
