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<div>I subscribed to this list via email. There are numerous scenarios, one is if your website always has visibility, the reality is that it could be 2 or three clicks away for a person to access it. I was on another site and it made reference to some groups and I sent an email and hence my membership in the Mailing List.</div>
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<div>From a consumer perspective, think of the consumer who is unfamiliar with the world of Internet Governance and wishes to educate him or herself, yes you can educate them via having an excellent website but you also need to make membership hassle free and as easy as sending an email, I suppose. Within the Welcome Message, you can include the website as part of the welcome message so people can still have the option of whether they wish to visit the website and you could invite them to bookmark the page.</div>
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<div>Just a Thought.</div>
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<div>Sala<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Fearghas McKay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fm-lists@st-kilda.org">fm-lists@st-kilda.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>On 4 Jan 2011, at 06:47, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br><br>> If enough people agree with you and disagree with me, then I can re-enable subscriptions via email and via the old Web page. However, we will then lose a lot of the benefits of having a single subscription page to both the list and the Web resources.<br>
<br></div>You can send information in the welcome mail asking people to visit the website to provide the extra information so that they can partake in all the new community features.<br><font color="#888888"><br> f____________________________________________________________<br>
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