On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
1. Personally, I like having them as-is.
2. Individual users can switch them on/off as they wish, either via
the web interface or via email. (It might be good to include wording
about both methods in the initial welcome message sent to new subscribers.
Perhaps it might also be good to include the same in monthly reminders.)
3. Consider shifting the reminder date to something other than the
beginning of the month (which is Mailman's default). People on many
Mailman-operated mailing lists tend to get inundated on the first
day of each month, so perhaps this might make the traffic more palatable.
I find them really irritating and I have many different email list subscriptions on different email accounts. I do not want to waste time disabling them piecemeal.
There is a protocol that allows for easy unsubscription from mailing lists - the header contains the unsubscribe. And most intelligent anti-spam tools will automatically unsubscribe if someone reports a message. In fact some will do that rather too proactively, it seems I fell off the ietf mailing list for a while because of something like that.
The principle should be 'don't send nobody nothing unless they ask first'.
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