[Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On 5/8/01 5:22 PM, "J C Lawrence" <claw at kanga.nu> wrote:

>> I've decided the default footer isn't quite good enough.
> 
> Your complaint?

Minor ones:

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Neither of the URLs is defined. Better would be:

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That's still rough, but I find I have JUST enough people naïve enough to not
know why those links are there that I want to add signposts. We're assuming
they know what those items are for, and that's not really a safe assumption.

> Aside: I just ran some stats.  For my main list posting percentage
> has now declined to between 17% - 23% of the total subscriber base.
> This down from an 80% poster rate for a list that had 10% of the
> current subscriber base.
> 
> Not sure what to make of it.

Those are still REALLY high compared to most lists.

>> And the default mailman digest header is bad...
> 
> Agreed.  Then again I generally view digests as bad given the
> current state of MUAs and digest support.

Won't get into the politics of digests. People like them. But some parts of
the digest preamble ought to be in the footer, or simply gone. I couldn't
say offhand how I'll redo it -- haven't decided.