Re: Re: A Few Proposed Changes

Just to answer a few of your questions Vincent -

Vincent Brabant wrote:

>> 2) As I stated earlier the profile of the people on the nbannounce 
>> mailing
>>   list has changed. In order to maintain the list growth and keep people
>>   informed of NetBeans activities and developments we need to keep the
>>   traffic on nbannounce to a minimum; maybe one or two messages a month.
> 
> Why. Did you receive complaints about the fact that We receive 5 
> messages a month 

Yes :-)  The majority of ppl who subscribe via the download
survey are not typically so interested in the weekly newsletter,
for eg, and mail "unsubscribe" msgs to the list, to the moderators,
and to the list owners.

>>   Sprout is the proper messaging tool for this audience. However the 
>> weekly
>>   newsletter is not. I think we need to move the weekly newsletter to 
>> nbusers@
>>   and nbdev@. 
> 
> Why both ? If it's needed to migrate the weekly newsletter to another 
> mailing list, I think that nbusers would be sufficient.
> Every netbeans developers would be also subscribed to nbusers

I think I agree, I'm not sure cross-posting is a good idea.
OTOH nbusers is quite high volume and maybe developers don't
want to subscribe there just for the newsletter ...

> I think that after sharing opinion, here, in nbmarketing, we would ask 
> for to nbdiscuss.

Agreed, though I'll leave that to Rob :-)

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Jack Catchpoole
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