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On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 19:08 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote:
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On 18/12/10 3:34 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
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> What about those who sign up directly, via SMTP Email, its how I did,
> its likely how many here did when this list was first announced after
> the troubles many of us had with the last list server, an "agree before
> you sign up" via a web page is utterly pointless unless you are going
> to disable half of mailman as well.
How about including a copy of the charter with the welcome message when
a person subscribes? That would cover everyone, regardless of method of
subscription.
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Ben,<BR>
That would be a good idea (and I support that move), but their point was "agree before you join", you would need to modify and include the charter in the subscribe confirmation request, in the email, not just on mailman, as many use "reply to" to confirm, not just go to the link, you need to link to the charter saying by subscribing you agree blah blah blah, but again who reads those things, we all know what mailing list requests expect and just reply or click, honestly, who read the rest of the blurb, likely no one <IMG SRC="cid:1292661081.17173.3.camel@tardis" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0">
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