On 13.02.2013 13:36, Jesse Noller wrote: > Direct email has a better conversion rate, that's basic marketing :)
Indeed, and if you can handle the load of support emails, that's certainly a better way to do this. It depends on how many account there are on PyPI. I'm just mentioning this, because we had to make the same decision a while ago and decided against doing emails. > On Feb 13, 2013, at 7:27 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13.02.2013 13:13, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> Richard Jones <richard <at> python.org> writes: >>>> 3. send email to all registered users indicating that all users must >>>> change their password and a forced reset will take place in a week's >>>> time for users who have not done so, and >>> >>> What about users who've already changed their password? >> >> Depending on the number of users you might rather want to use >> a banner on the website and a blog post instead of emailing >> them directly. >> >> Given the >11k users on the Python wiki, we chose not to send >> out emails... just think of the number of emails with questions >> you'd get and have to answer. >> >> Regarding the timing, I'd use a longer period. People don't >> do releases every two weeks and you normally don't check in >> to PyPI to search for a package. >> >> -- >> Marc-Andre Lemburg >> eGenix.com >> >> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 13 2013) >>>>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> >> ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: >> >> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 >> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg >> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Catalog-SIG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 13 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
