[K5pbem] Changes to the Mailing List

[Michael Surbrook]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Jeff Skagen wrote:

>> Along with editing the cast of PCs to show who is active and who  
>> is not, I am debating simply deleting anyone who doesn't respond  
>> between now and Dec 31st from the Mailing List.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Y'know, at first I thought this was a good idea, but the more I  
> think about it, the more I don't really see much point to it. If  
> someone isn't interested anymore, it's easy enough to unsubscribe.  
> And if they aren't interested anymore but are too lazy to  
> unsubscribe, well, so what? It's not hurting us to keep sending  
> them messages from the list. But if we delete anyone who doesn't  
> respond in a set time, we may inadvertently prune some lurkers who  
> are interested but not active on the list or are away for a time,  
> or whatever. So unless there's some other reason I can't think of  
> for some list housekeeping, I think we should leave all the current  
> list subscribers on it. Just my 2 cents.

Good point.

But I am going to remove dma26 at cornell.edu since it is bouncing all  
the time and I get an "address not found report" with it.


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