So, I ran some stats on the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED], both for its
entire history and for just the last few months.
About half the traffic of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is from the PAUSE
auto-notifications (and more than half in recent times).
Looking through the archives at
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ I notice that there are
some PAUSE activities which seldom (never?) actually cause any
discussion, and which may in fact be utterly uninteresting to us. They
include:
- Welcome new user
- User update
Stuff that's only occasionally interesting enough to merit a reply
includes:
- New module submission
- Module update
More likely to be interesting to us are the emails from real human
beings, i.e. not auto-generated from PAUSE. We definitely want to read
and respond to those :)
(I'm working on the assumption that replies indicate interest on the
part of [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- correct me if I'm mistaken on that one, as I
may well be.)
So here's a quick suggestion: why don't we cut the traffic significantly
by /dev/null-ing all the "welcome new user" and "user update" stuff?
And, if we don't actually read or verify the "module update" stuff, that
too. Or if /dev/null is too strong a measure, perhaps a separate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list for those who actually care?
K.
