On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 9:16 AM Adrien Glauser
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Hello,
As far as I understand there is no centralized tool allowing users to manage their mailing list subscriptions. Each ML has to be individually micro-managed.
Also MLs seem to assume that only messages from subscribed users are allowed through (even though there is a nice message that informs you if you are not yet subscribed that the message you just sent is "pending approval", in my recent experience none of the messages I sent this way actually went though).
So the business logic here entails that sending message to several MLs pushes you under the following bus:
Either
your messages will land on the "waiting for approval" purgatory and probably won't ever go through
Or
you have to manually subscribe to every single ML you want to write to keep track of all of them (to avoid sending a message to the one ML you forgot you weren't subscribed to); and you have to add filters to your email client (as opposed to a centralized web manager) to avoid drowning in a tsunami of emails; and you have to be empirical about this, making sure your filters don't get false positives or negatives.
Not a cool dilemma. I mean ML clearly have their purpose but if I didn't miss anything obvious, this does not help with making the ML for attractive to people born after 1995.
Am I missing the obvious?
Also what's the margin for feasible improvements? How strong do we need to push to shake up status quo?
The transition to Mailman 3 will give people a web-based centralized mechanism to manage mailing list subscriptions. There will be some other changes as well in terms of how emails are sent and received, and how header-based filtering will need to be done for clients, and those will be communicated relatively soon as the migration date is pinned down. -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org