On 31 March 2017 at 15:34, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 03/31/2017 09:26 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> >>> >> >> The draft newsletter does not seem to have instructions for opting out. >> Do you plan to add that before going live? > > The intent is that this would go to committ...@apache.org - a list to > which all committers are subscribed. There's no other list where we can > actually reach the audience I'm targeting - the very committers who are > less and less engaged with the larger Foundation with each passing year. > > Making this a separate newsletter mailing list would completely defeat > the purpose of the mailing. > > We also send board meeting minutes to this list, notifications of > upcoming events, notices of surveys, and various other messages that go > to the entire committership, without explicit mentions of ways to opt > out, other than the standard unsubscribe header.
AFAIK it's not possible to unsubscribe from committers@ except by ceasing to be a committer. [Unsub might work temporarily, but the subs are regenerated at least weekly from LDAP] > I'm hoping that if we make this a regular thing, the shotgun-style > messages to the list will decrease, and, rather, be included in a > regular, predictable monthly mailing, thus *reducing* rather than > increasing traffic on that list. > > Do you feel that an explicit opt-out mechanism is needed for this? > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
