8 Jul
2008
8 Jul
'08
12:53 p.m.
I wonder if we could change the post-to-all-three-lists
policy? I don't like to spam three mailing lists
for everytime I announce a program, and it doesn't
seem like everyone knows that we are supposed
to post to all lists either.
8 Jul
8 Jul
1:22 p.m.
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:52:16 +0200 (CEST), "Kjetil S. Matheussen"
<k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no> wrote:
I wonder if we could change the post-to-all-three-lists
policy? I don't like to spam three mailing lists
for everytime I announce a program, and it doesn't
seem like everyone knows that we are supposed
to post to all lists either.
Hi Kjetil,
Robin Gareus has made last year an interesting study on this matter. It
seems that the proportion of users that are subscribed to all three lists
is quite small. So cross posting announces on the 3 lists isn't such a bad
thing.
Now regarding the fact that not everyone knows they should post on the 3
lists, I don't really think that's the case. most announces I see are
posted at least on 2 lists. LAA is nearly always one of them. Some people
choose to add LAD and LAU, some choose to add also their project list.
Cheers,
-- Marc-Olivier Barre --
--- MarcO'Chapeau ----
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1:53 p.m.
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MarcOChapeau wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:52:16 +0200 (CEST),
"Kjetil S. Matheussen"
<k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no> wrote:
I just ran the script again: as of July 8 2008 there are 1760 unique
subscribers @linuxaudio.org's 4 lists (laa,lau,lad,consortium).
The majority of users is subscribed to ONE list only.
# number-of-subscribed-lists@lao => head-count
[1] => 1255
[2] => 315
[3] => 160
[4] => 30
so long,
robin
I wonder if we could change the
post-to-all-three-lists
policy? I don't like to spam three mailing lists
for everytime I announce a program, and it doesn't
seem like everyone knows that we are supposed
to post to all lists either.
Hi Kjetil,
Robin Gareus has made last year an interesting study on this matter. It
seems that the proportion of users that are subscribed to all three lists
is quite small. So cross posting announces on the 3 lists isn't such a bad
thing.
Now regarding the fact that not everyone knows they should post on the 3
lists, I don't really think that's the case. most announces I see are
posted at least on 2 lists. LAA is nearly always one of them. Some people
choose to add LAD and LAU, some choose to add also their project list.
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9 Jul
9 Jul
11:15 a.m.
Now regarding
the fact that not everyone knows they should post on the
3 lists, I don't really think that's the case. most announces I see are
posted at least on 2 lists. LAA is nearly always one of them. Some
people choose to add LAD and LAU, some choose to add also their project
list.
I just ran the script again: as of July 8 2008 there are 1760 unique
subscribers @linuxaudio.org's 4 lists (laa,lau,lad,consortium). The
majority of users is subscribed to ONE list only. 
8 Jul
8 Jul
1:45 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:52 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
I wonder if we could change the
post-to-all-three-lists
policy? I don't like to spam three mailing lists
for everytime I announce a program, and it doesn't
seem like everyone knows that we are supposed
to post to all lists either.
Agreed. Not much point of an announce list if everyone spams all the
lists anyway. Getting 3 emails instead of 1 is a bit annoying,
especially since the point of the announce list existing is that the
other lists are relatively high traffic.
As for people not being subscribed, well... if you want announcements,
subscribe to the announce list. Duh. :)
There's an easily accessible archive on the web anyway
-DR
3:27 p.m.
Hallo,
Dave Robillard hat gesagt: // Dave Robillard wrote:
Agreed. Not much point of an announce list if
everyone spams all the
lists anyway. Getting 3 emails instead of 1 is a bit annoying,
especially since the point of the announce list existing is that the
other lists are relatively high traffic.
In the pd-world, we had a similar discussion to get rid of double- and
triple-announcements some time ago, and solved it so that mails to the
announce list get forwarded to the main list automatically. So people
who want to announce something, only send mails to pd-announce. If you
subscribe pd-list, you automatically also receive pd-announce, while
if you subscribe pd-announce only, you only get pd-announce mails.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
4:26 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:27:41 +0200, Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org>
wrote:
Hallo,
Dave Robillard hat gesagt: // Dave Robillard wrote:
Interesting suggestion. I guess this could work. This means that there
should be some web page somewhere stating the rules that I could use in a
template for denied emails.
Other ideas anyone ?
-- Marc-Olivier Barre --
--- MarcO'Chapeau ----
- www.marcochapeau.org -
Agreed. Not much point of an announce list if
everyone spams all the
lists anyway. Getting 3 emails instead of 1 is a bit annoying,
especially since the point of the announce list existing is that the
other lists are relatively high traffic.
In the pd-world, we had a similar discussion to get rid of double- and
triple-announcements some time ago, and solved it so that mails to the
announce list get forwarded to the main list automatically. So people
who want to announce something, only send mails to pd-announce. If you
subscribe pd-list, you automatically also receive pd-announce, while
if you subscribe pd-announce only, you only get pd-announce mails.
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