[Leaplist] Fwd: Re: Can kids volunteer for install fest on Saturday?

[Phil Barnett]

On Friday 29 February 2008 09:30:41 pm Gavin Baker wrote:

> Also, I find the announce list pretty useless. The subject lines are
> utterly non-informative, and the email body similarly contains no real
> information. There's no reason all the necessary information of an event
> shouldn't be in the email, so it's all in one place. (It's bad to
> presume the reader already knows where/when the event is, and it's also
> bad to make them check the Web site to find out.) And personally, I
> don't want to receive 4 emails reminding me of the same event; one
> email, a day or two before the event, is sufficient. I would expect most
> people are this way: of all the other mailing lists I read, no other
> posts 4 reminders, one day after the other, for the same event.

I guess your life is a lot more in order than mine is. For me, a reminder 
several days back may be totally washed out of my mind by Saturday. I need 4 
reminders. I need reminders on dozens of other tasks at work. Because there 
are simply too many things for me to remember. And I don't have to remember. 
I have a machine to remind me.

As far as getting too many reminders, you can filter out the ones you don't 
want, or you can make your own reminders, or you can simply notice that they 
came in and ignore them or you can just not get reminders. I see lots of 
options. All of them very easy to accomplish. In these days of deleting 
thousands of spams a month, I just don't see how 8 messages rises to much of 
a challenge, especially when they are so identifiable and opt in.

Now, we certainly can put in a link to the web page that describes the event. 
I think that's a good idea. I don't find the reminders uninformative because 
I do get information from them, but I can see how someone unfamiliar might 
need a nudge. Good idea. We'll do it.

Thanks for the feedback.

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