[K5pbem] Changes to the Mailing List

[Jeff Skagen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Surbrook" <susano at guisarme.net>
To: <k5pbem at devermore.net>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [K5pbem] Changes to the Mailing List


>
> 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.

Well, yes, of course you should delete it if it is repeatedly bouncing. 
Actually, I was assuming that happened automatically after so many bounces. 
I thought that's what most mailing lists did, but maybe I'm wrong about 
that.
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Jeff Skagen
jeff.skagen at comcast.net