At 5:15 PM -0800 2/10/2000, Michelle Dick wrote:
> In my case, I'm not just interested in how many prefer html versus
> don't, my less harm/most good criterion takes more into account actual
> functionality than emotional preference.
Heck if I can argue that. if that's what you feel is best for your
list, I'm all for it.
> Especially
> since my list has been around over 7 years and many of the original
> subscribers are still around and contributing and more likely to be in
> that 5% rather than the new 80% which are internet newcomers with the
> latest tools.
you might check that first because the results might surprise you. Or
amybe not...
> On a related note, I made my list much more prominant on my website
> and noticed a huge increase in the number of unsuccessful confirmation
> attempts. More internet newcomers learned about the list (great!) but
> they weren't able to follow the email instructions (not good).
Which is why, for some lists, confirmations got disabled -- yes,
there are some problems with a non-confirmed list, but not as many as
caused BY the confirmation. So least-harm wins again -- although I do
hope, like Michelle, to move back to some really easy confirmation
system again and get the best of both worlds.
> Certainly the internet culture is changing rapidly and I'm struggling
> with how to continue to nurture the list-community in the most
> accessible, yet convenient to use ways, and without imposing on myself
> too much (very important).
Yeah. I'm on about my fifth round of "stuff I wrote that was
perfectly good for my users a year ago needs to be fixed and
improved". Not because the users are getting stupid, but because
they're getting more naive about how this stuff operates, and to a
good degree, simply don't CARE how they operate, and shouldn't have
to. That's my job....
--
Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
and say 'Man, what are you doing here?'"
