Hi all, you may have noticed a message to Frameworks regarding subscribing to This Week in Avant Garde Cinema. For as long as Frameworks has been around, I (and a handful of other volunteers) have been posting TWIAGC to Frameworks. A year or so ago I started using MailChimp, which allows for nicer formatting (including photos) and makes managing the list of subscribers a lot easier. Many of you have responded positively to the change.
The problem is that the TWIAGC message contains an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom. For individual users this is great, but the version sent to the Frameworks list means that *anyone* can click that link, thinking they are unsubscribing for themselves but inadvertently unsubscribing the Frameworks email address itself (frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com). That means nobody wanting to see the message on Frameworks will see TWIAGC. (And MailChimp does not have any way to prevent that from happening for an individual email account.) I have no problem with folks subscribing and unsubscribing to the list on their own - that's the nice thing about MailChimp. All I can do is ask that if you want to unsubscribe from TWIAGC, make sure the email is *NOT* the one from Frameworks (it'll have [Frameworks] in its subject). This means, of course, that you continue to see TWIAGC if you're still subscribed to Frameworks. The two lists are not connected. On the other hand, if a majority of Frameworks folks would prefer not to see TWIAGC posted to Frameworks, I'm happy to remove it and encourage everyone who wants to see it to subscribe separately. To subscribe, go to http://eepurl.com/ba_wZf [1]. Both TWIAGC and Frameworks have been around since 1995 (21 years!), and the former now has nearly 700 individual subscribers. In fact, one of the very first posts (maybe the 3rd?) to Frameworks was TWIAGC, listing events for the week of November 3, 1995. Anyway, thanks for reading this, and I welcome your thoughts. Scott Stark www.scottstark.com [2] Experimental Response Cinema [3] Flicker [4] Links: ------ [1] http://eepurl.com/ba_wZf [2] http://www.scottstark.com [3] http://www.ercatx.org [4] http://www.hi-beam.net
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