When I first joined mailing lists of any kind, back in the mid 1990's, monthly reminders of etiquette almost seemed too infrequent. Flame wars broke out constantly. Flame wars are still a constant on social media. My hope is that places like Twitter and Facebook provide a sufficient outlet for people to get the venom out of their system, making them more agreeable when they turn to their mailing lists. Although I've seen things get touchy a couple of times on the FreeDOS list, things seemed to get worked out quickly and without any need for intervention. I have tended to be pleased with how hospitable the FreeDOS list has been and how incredibly patient the most experienced people have been in their explanations and discussions. Eric, Liam, Jim and Dennis come to mind, but I hope the inadequacy of my memory isn't taken as a slight to anyone else.
I would vote "no" for monthly reminders. On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 3:54 AM Ian Park <i.d.c.p...@chalmers-park.name> wrote: > For what it's worth, I have a counter-example to Jim's belief: I receive a > monthly reminder for the Linux User Group mailing lists to which I > subscribe. That said, I don't mind either way whether the monthly reminders > for Freedos continue. > > Ian > > Ian Park > Email: i.d.c.p...@chalmers-park.name > Mobile: +44 (0) 7785 300290 > Sent from my Galaxy > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> > Date: 22/08/2022 21:40 (GMT+00:00) > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Retire from sending monthly reminder message > > I'm actually wondering if we need the automatic monthly list reminders > anymore. I was thinking about it today, and John started doing this > for us when the FreeDOS email lists were on a different email service > (the old fd-dev list, I think) and our web hosting was very different > (HTML documents only, no automation). So John's automated reminders > were an excellent solution, and I'm really glad he did that for us. > > However, things are different now. For one, we have fewer people > joining the list, so the same people are seeing the same list > reminder, month after month. Maybe a monthly reminder is too frequent. > But I think we're pretty unique these days in having a monthly > reminder; I don't think other email lists or forums or discussion > boards for other open source projects have a monthly reminder. > > Also, our current FreeDOS email lists are hosted on Sourceforge now, > and the Sourceforge list service lets the list administrator add a > custom "welcome" message to anyone who joins the email list. I can > copy the text of our list rules into that welcome message, so that > anyone who joins the email lists will get a copy of the list rules. > That seems a good thing to do, regardless. > > I can also add the full text of the list rules to our "Forums" page on > the website. We currently link to the list rules, but the rules can be > made more obvious by including the full text right next to where you'd > subscribe to the list. That seems an obvious place to put it. (I'm > working on the website redesign anyway - albeit slowly - and I can > make this part of the update.) > > With these changes, do we need a monthly list reminder anymore? > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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