Re: Community Feedback: Turning off monthly IETF mailing list password reminder emails

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> 1. Personally, I like having them as-is.
>
> 2. Individual users can switch them on/off as they wish, either via
> the web interface or via email.  (It might be good to include wording
> about both methods in the initial welcome message sent to new subscribers.
> Perhaps it might also be good to include the same in monthly reminders.)
>
> 3. Consider shifting the reminder date to something other than the
> beginning of the month (which is Mailman's default).  People on many
> Mailman-operated mailing lists tend to get inundated on the first
> day of each month, so perhaps this might make the traffic more palatable.
>

I find them really irritating and I have many different email list
subscriptions on different email accounts. I do not want to waste time
disabling them piecemeal.

There is a protocol that allows for easy unsubscription from mailing lists
- the header contains the unsubscribe. And most intelligent anti-spam tools
will automatically unsubscribe if someone reports a message. In fact some
will do that rather too proactively, it seems I fell off the ietf mailing
list for a while because of something like that.


The principle should be 'don't send nobody nothing unless they ask first'.


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