[K5pbem] Changes to the Mailing List

Chuk Goodin cgoodin at sfu.ca
Fri Nov 10 15:16:03 CST 2006


On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:52:44PM -0800, Jeff Skagen wrote:
> 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.

I'm definitely a lurker myself, but I'd rather not get left off -- can we 
still respond if we don't even have a character?

-- 
chuk


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