[wp-docs] Mailing List Feature Req.

[Robert Reed]

TEST EMAIL

KEEP ME ON THE LIST
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If you make your list "active-in" or only leave on the list if you 
participate... every month your board will fill up with junk messages, 
like above, so that "readers" can continue receiving what they signed up 
to recieve.

Podz wrote:

> Mailman sends a monthly reminder that I am on this list.
>
> Can Mailman be configured to send 'opt-in' reminders instead, and the 
> mailing list instead of growing and showing amounts of people that are 
> happy to recieve mail yet not respond be cropped on a monthly basis.
>
> Yes, someone will say that they may miss a crucial email, or that if 
> they go away disaster may befall, but as it is, if 5000 people subbed 
> to this list, and never responded again, Mailman would happily send 
> mails out. Seems a bit odd.
>
> I suggest the model be 'active-in' rather than 'passive-in'
>
> P.
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