Re: What about an announce-only mailing list?

[Björn Fischer]

> Contrary to what Neil said in a previous post, with only one or two 
> e-mails per year, I would personally prefer a subscription reminder to be 
> sent out every month or two to (1) show that the list is still alive and 
> (2) remind me that I am still subscribed.
>
>  

I can just say how I personally prefer it: If I subscribe to a list with 
very low traffic, I would not like to be reminded every month. I would 
rather like to be able to forget about the list until there is something 
going on there. And having an "overhead" of 12 reminder mails for 2 
mails of content per year would not be my preferred option.

> I think the other problem with the Pingus announce list on Savannah was 
> that there were hardly any subscribers.  Anyway, I don't control the 
> mailing lists.  People will need to convince Ingo.
>  

Well, that's a good point. If noone uses it it's useless (what a 
sentence :-). But there is at least one subscriber (Michele). And I hope 
pingus will get more famous in the future (the better it gets the more 
famous it will become) so that there will probably be more subscribers 
in the future than there were in the past.

But you're right. Ingo or David will have to decide this. We can only 
say how we think about it. And if that wasn't clear enough: I would 
think it's a good idea :-)

Greetings

Björn