[Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 08 May 2001 22:07:42 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui at plaidworks.com> wrote:

> 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:

> _______________________________________________ 
> sharks mailing list 
> sharks at hockeyfanz.com
> http://www.hockeyfanz.com/mailman/listinfo/sharks

> Neither of the URLs is defined. 

Fair call.

> 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.

There are times I just feel blessed.  (Then I wake up)

>> 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.

Yeah, they surprised me.  I thought my percentages were down around
half that (8%) until I did some stats on the archives.  

>>> 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. 

Ptui.

I don't mind them as long as digest readers either never post, or
they properly manage their Subject, and In-Reply-To:/References:
headers in their replies.  Sadly few do.  Knowing the state of MUAs
out there I can't entirely blame them.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows