On Thu, 22 May 2003, panamerica334 at gmx.net wrote: > why aren't these cc'd to the annouce list?
In the past, it's only been version number increases that have been posted to the announce list. I can't speak for the actual reason for this, but it makes sense to me. I've often received "announcements" from various places. I hadn't done anything with those places in a long time, but I couldn't complain about the email, since I *had* signed up to receive announcements. In the process, I was reminded about this thing that I had once been interested in and had dropped, thinking it needed more time to develop, or that I wasn't quite ready for it. Being reminded of it, I went to check it out again. I've never been in this situation with Freenet, but there may be those who are. They check out Freenet, sign up for the announcements, find that they don't like Freenet for whatever reason, and give up. A month later, they get an announcement about a new release with all these nifty new improvements, and they maybe consider trying again. If they don't, they just delete the email, and end up going through the same thing again a month later. If they were getting an email from this project they weren't interested in every week, then simply unsubscribing from the list would become an attractive option. At least, that's the way I'd react. I like announcment lists that allow me to use them that way. -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
