[FFML] Just a note on configuration

[Sean Connor]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:54:19PM +0400, W. Suika Roberts wrote:
> > If we want to encourage a culture where the
> > default response is a public response, it seems clear which option we
> > should choose.
> 
> I surely don't think it would hurt, at this point  -- we've got a  
> list with 3000 members and we get five to twenty posts a month?   
> There's something wrong with that.

I should note that there is definitely a lot of deadwood in the
subscriber list, though.  Over a quarter of the accounts on the list
were set to 'vacation'.

In addition, it seems that the version of Ecartis that Phil used had a
bug in it.  It was supposed to have set the accounts of anyone who
bounced too many messages to 'vacation' status -- but for some reason it
didn't do that.  I noticed an old address of mine -- defunct for five
years -- still on the list, apparently active.  Same with about 50
addresses from the long-defunct meta-ISP home.com.

So, the long and the short of it is that I don't really have any idea
how many of the accounts still have anyone actively reading them.  I
wouldn't be surprised if there are less than a third of the total
subscriber list still reading.

-- 
  -Sean Connor  (sec at zre.ca)
             
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