<...> << On 5/19/2012 10:46 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
I will point out that from the recipients point of view, a mailman invite looks to be "Bulk", they have no way to know if you sent it specifically to them or to a large list. <...> One way around this is rather than us the mailman invite feature, write a personal email where you "invite" the person to subscribe, giving the url of the subscription page as a pointer.>> Even tho I'm with a cPanel instal by serious "dumb" luck I having been doing exactly that for over a decade since I started my 1st List which was actually "begged" for ;-) by a bunch of folks on another Public List which did/does not allow attachments. I have no clue as to why I didn't just Mass Subscribe. I sent out Personal Invites with the Subscribe URL. Something about the Mass Sub. just didn't "feel" right. << While you can't prevent someone from pressing the "This is spam" button,>> I have just about reached the "breaking point" and maybe one (1) more and I'm gonna ban AOL (Yahoo not far behind these days) users. << if you have done some pre-vetting to be sure the person is likely interested, and made the message clearly personal and not bulk, will minimize the chances of them doing so.>> Absolutely agreed, Richard ! ! Thank you for posting something in this thread that applies to MM Users such as myself who ARE stuck behind cPanel :-[ :-) ! ! Ed Please visit MY site at: www.justbrits.com PS: Anyone interested in a slow ( 3- 4 /day) "Joke List" by MM, please drop me a note :-) ! ! Ooops, and/or a small Political List (Poly Sci101). ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
