Re: Some guy that evidently wants to be removed from the mailing list

On 18/9/23 07:26, Jon Smith wrote:
> I don't know how many users there are like me.  I read what you post, 
> get tips from the occasional hyperlink to a project, but don't comment.  
> I'm certainly not a power programmer, so I'm just looking for tools that 
> someone creates that could be useful for me.
> 
> Just a perspective.

Yes, I understand.

People who subscribe to mailing lists, and, sit in the background, 
observing, but, not actively participating, are generally referred to as 
lurkers, without any aspersion on their nature.

I am also a lurker on a number of lists - it is a good way to monitor 
what is happening, and, to discover new and helpful information, that, 
sometimes, a person is not aware of the information, to ask about it, 
or, otherwise, it has not occurred to a person that the information 
might exist.

Sometimes, it can be difficult, to know how many lurkers want to stay, 
and, to stay as lurkers, and, how many are not really bothered as to 
whether they stay subscribed, and, some might have done something like 
subscribed from a new address, without unsubscribing the old address, 
and, some simply direct all mail from a mailing list, into a dead end 
folder, without ever seeing the messages. This is not an adverse 
reflection on lurkers, it is simply an observation of things that may 
occur on mailing lists.

It is unfortunate that sourceforge has deemed fit to eliminate necessary 
mailing list maintenance functionality from the mailing list, as, being 
a mailing list administrator or moderator, is a volunteer office, and, 
can be troublesome enough, without mailing lists hosts making the task 
more difficult than it needs to be.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............



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