Re: What about an announce-only mailing list?

[Gervase Lam]

> From: Björn Fischer
> Subject: Re: What about an announce-only mailing list?
> Date: Monday 19 April 2004 08:24 am

> I think that's what Michele wanted. For users (and I mean binary-only
> users) it is hard to make them remember to check the website frequently
> for updates. And even if someone wants to check - let's say - once a
> month, he probably will do it once or twice and then forget about it.
> But if he was subscribed to such mailing list he would be reminded twice
> a year (or less :-) that there is a new pingus version out. I think
> that's really useful.

Another argument that I was thinking of adding to my previous post was 
that the volume of the announce list was so low that you might as well 
just look at the web site every so often to see if there is an update or 
not.  Obviously, you have sort of used that argument to say that an 
announce list is a good idea.

Contrary to what Neil said in a previous post, with only one or two 
e-mails per year, I would personally prefer a subscription reminder to be 
sent out every month or two to (1) show that the list is still alive and 
(2) remind me that I am still subscribed.

I think the other problem with the Pingus announce list on Savannah was 
that there were hardly any subscribers.  Anyway, I don't control the 
mailing lists.  People will need to convince Ingo.

Thanks,
Gervase.