Re: A Few Proposed Changes

Vincent Brabant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.marketing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robert Demmer a écrit :
> 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 -

So, in fact, the weekly news must be seen as the digester of the digester.
> 
> 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 :-)
>>
> 
> 
> 


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