[antlr-interest] Need for regular FAQ mails (was: Re: unsubscribe request)

[Chris Rebert]

Well, there is the monthly subscription reminder that Mailman sends
out which usually has this info, so unless it's been turned off by the
admins, people should be getting that on a regular interval.

However, for the Python mailinglists I'm subscribed to, every message
has a footer appended with the list info, for example:
Python-3000 mailing list
Python-3000 at python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000
Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/MY-EMAIL-ADDRESS-REDACTED

Perhaps enabling the Mailman option for this should be considered?

- Chris

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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kay Röpke <kroepke at classdump.org> wrote:
> Hi!
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> On Aug 17, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Brent Yates wrote:
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>> In his defense, I have never seen a List-Unsubscribe header on any ANTLR
>> emails.  It IS easy to unsubscribe from the main ANTLR web site, but the
>> information is not in the emails that I get.
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> FWIW, here's the header I see on every mail:
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> List-Unsubscribe:
> <http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest>,
>  <mailto:antlr-interest-request at antlr.org?subject=unsubscribe>
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> I'd blame it on insufficient support in the mail programs. Unfortunately
> I've never seen any application that presents this information in a
> reasonable way (or could easily be configured to do it). Then again, I
> normally know what to do with mailing lists ;)
>
> On a related note, I'm wondering whether we should assemble some sort of FAQ
> and post it to the list in regular intervals as well as including it's text
> and/or a link to it in the welcome email.
> Some stuff comes up very often, and especially for beginners it seems hard
> to figure some stuff out or at least figure out where to find it. That
> doesn't mean noone makes a bona fide attempt to find out before posting,
> but, well you know what I'm getting at :)
>
> cheers,
> -k
>
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> Kay Röpke
> http://classdump.org/
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