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

[Gavin Baker]

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Phil Barnett wrote:
| 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.

I don't have any problem with the reminders. But it's overkill for me
personally, and I expect most people would feel the same way. (Of all
the dozens of other announcement lists I subscribe to, no other list
sends 4 reminders.)

So I'm not saying "stop the reminders". I'm saying, maybe offer another
option, for people who just want one announcement per event. That list
could automatically post to this one (and, if you like, other local lists).

| 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.

A link is required, but it'd be great to also have the event information
(what, when, where, etc.) in the email itself. Saves a click.

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Gavin Baker
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