On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure about this.  Unsolicited e-mail is getting
> > to really annoy people, so this might be taken in a negative light.
> > Also, when posting to newsgroups many people munge their addresses
> > so that they don't get extra mail, so the script will fail in those
> > cases.
> 
> Jim Menard <jimm / eris.io.com> writes:
> 
> > Sorry, but I don't like the idea of an unsolicited email. A monthly
> > or weekly FAQ is customary on USENET, not personally contacting
> > someone who hasn't requested such an email.
> 
> 
> What do people think about this? People who've subscribed to the
> mailing list already get a subscription mail, and expect to get a
> decent volume of posts over mail. People posting to comp.lang.ruby
> don't.

Well, maybe the weekly FAQ should mention that anyone who posts the
first time will get email.  Then everyone would be warned, except
those who don't read the FAQ (and we don't care about them :-)


David

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