On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:30:57 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> 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 found that there wasn't much difference between posting bi-weekly, monthly, and not at all, at least in terms of helping the casual user. They don't keep a copy of it, so it's never there when they want it (so they simply blat at the list). And the more often you post it, the more likely people simply tune it out as noise. That's one reason why I started experimenting with footer language instead, and pre-mailman, simply stopped sending regular postings. It just seemed like they were mostly bit-bucketed.

Okay, but that doesn't explain the rash of unsubscribes every month on an otherwise active discussion list.

Personally, I think monthly is "about right". I'm not ready to do away with them, especially since 2.1 can hook the bounce systme into them. but I'm still unsure just what good they do, either.

<nod>

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