[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Michael Gurstein]

Jeremy,

I run several quite active and I think quite useful email lists that follow
precisely the subscription procedure that you have indicated below.  I've
had no complaints and absolutely no confusion on how to sub (unsubbing is
sometimes a problem because people being people and technology being
technology, people forget their passwords or have their email addresses
changed for them peremptorily by sysadmins who, with just a bit of
arrogance, don't both informing them of this process). 

With best regards,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: governance-request at lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-request at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Malcolm
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:05 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Avri Doria
Subject: Re: [governance] New membership database: choose your own username


On 04/01/2011, at 12:52 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

> i was wondering what happens when someone send subscribe message to
> list.cpsr.org?
> 
> so i tried:
> 
>> Command has been rejected :
>> 
>>> subscribe governance
>> You are not allowed to subscribe to this list.
> 
> I do not think this is a good thing.

Does anyone subscribe to a mailing list by sending email to the list address
anymore?  Surely they will just visit the list's Web page.  If they do that,
they see a nice friendly message with a link to the new subscription page.
(I can always make this link larger and friendly if needed.)

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