I'd have to agree with Richard in that there doesn't seem to be a good way to make this idea fly--at the very least, it would be annoying (also because there really is no way to guarantee that the results would be entirely relevant to the contents of the message).
I've sent an e-mail to the php.net webmaster asking their opinion on adding a link to the archives (maybe to all of them, although personally I think that would be confusing) to the signature that gets added to each message that goes through the list. We'll see what they think... any support we can muster from the list itself will certainly help ;-)
Cheers
Marco
Richard Baskett wrote:
on 10/22/03 13:32, David T-G at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard, et al --
...and then Richard Baskett said...
% % on 10/21/03 16:40, David T-G at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% % > ...and then Marco Tabini said...
% > % % > % php.general for new messages and send back an e-mail to the list with
...
% > % > A nice idea, but terribly difficult to implement practically. It was
% > tried on the mutt-users list and the manitainer was roundly flamed :-)
% % It seems like it would be ok to have it sent to the person that asked the
% question... And then if they did not want to receive those notices, then
% they could opt out of that..
That sounds a lot like opt-out spam. Is it OK for me to send you lots of unsolicted, form-letter, machine-generated emails? :-)
It wasn't pretty.
I understand what you are saying, but if it's part of the agreement when you sign up for the php-general mailing list.. then... And at any time you can opt in again if you wanted. Or if that is still too intrusive then have a little notice at the bottom of each php-general mailing along with the other footer stuff and let people opt in that way from the beginning...
Rick
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