Re: Re: A Few Proposed Changes

Good questions Vincent sorry that I did not reply earlier but I missed
your email. Let me skip to the last section of where we would direct
the weekly newsletter.

I think what would be best is to setup a mailing list for the weekly
newsletter exclusively. The whole point of the weekly newsletter is
to provide a rundown of events that have taken place on nbusers and
nbdev mailing list for people who do not wish to follow all posts.

I am going to move this conversation and proposal to nbdiscuss
as suggested. I am going to propose that the NetBeans weekly
newsletter be send to a new mailing list alias:
"[email protected]"

Thanks for all feedback I have received.

- Rob -

Jack Catchpoole wrote:

> 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 :-)
>