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Mailing list subscriptions
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:44:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> > > > If someone makes an install file for Ldraw, can they put in an email
> > > > registration feature that lets one of us know who downloaded it and
> > > > where to contact them so they can get update notifications and more
> > > > so we can keep track of approximately how many use it..etc..? What
> > > > do you think..?
> > >
> > > It would be possible, if we wanted to set up a mailing list...
> >
> > If a separate mailing list were set up for update notifications, then
> > everything would have to be posted to two places (there and here).
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> Todd, it was a joke. We just moved in here, right?
Sorry! -- I'm humor-impaired sometimes without the aid of smileys. Anyway,
it seemed like a legitimate/logical suggestion to me, at least in terms of
the bottom line -- a low-bandwidth information-dispersal venue for updates.
> > Another possibility: Simply create .cad.announce or .cad.updates for
> > this purpose. That way anyone could get the info via e-mail or via news,
> > and you could direct followups to a discussion group like lugnet.cad or
> > lugnet.cad.dev as appropriate.
>
> That's an interesting idea. Can people subscribe via e-mail without
> visiting the web-pages (even if it means they can't post?)
No, all additions and subtractions happen through the News-by-Mail page
http://www.lugnet.com/news/mail/
Part of the reason groups can't be added and subtracted via e-mail commands
is that the web page can handle things so much quicker, easier, clearer, and
cleaner than e-mail based methods. Another reason is that every command to
the transaction machinery has to be verified with a password or confirmation
code -- a listserver can't just blindly accept mail from you that says you
want to subscribe or unsubscribe -- that's wicked dangerous because mail is
so easy to forge. The only thing it can trust is sending you something
unique that you can prove you've received (some list servers make a unique
one-time URL that you click on to activate the transaction). Another reason
is that people often misspell things when they type listserver commands
("unsuscripe lugent.cad").
> > Take the recently created S@H announcements ng for example -- many people
> > are happy to read it via news, but there are 27 people who receive the info
> > in their e-mail inbox first thing Monday morning. I think that's pretty
> > neat! Before yesterday, BTW, the S@H announcements ng was the most common
> > ng to subscribe to via e-mail.
>
> But that's because most robotics-heads are subscribed through the
> stand-alone mail-list server.
OK yes, if that counts in the same way. I guess my point was that a
nontrivial number of people are willing to receive a very low-bandwidth
newsgroup by mail, just for the announcements. Maybe it's because the
content is time-dependent or maybe the nature of super-low-bandwidth groups
in general is that receiving them by mail is much less work than checking
their ng periodically.
--Todd
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| (...) Todd, it was a joke. We just moved in here, right? (...) That's an interesting idea. Can people subscribe via e-mail without visiting the web-pages (even if it means they can't post?) (...) But that's because most robotics-heads are subscribed (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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