Chad Walstrom wrote: > Oh, by all gods large and small, here it is... To sign up, you must > subscribe their newsletter to the list, at least that's how the TCWUG > group has it set up. Additionally, they have not used the mailman > "topics" feature to label it as "advertisement". Although this is not obvious from the registration form, let's just assume that some group or list alias is a requirement and that they will send some promotional material. Even though it would make sense to use advanced features such as mailman topics I suspect it is unrealistic to expect them to do so. > Please do not cave in to this request, or if you do, place the crappy > advertisement newsletter on another list. IMHO, newsletters should be > sent out to INDIVIDUALS, not lists, on a subscription basis only. I agree that sending promotional information to lists is a little abusive. How about this as a compromise: We create a new list, such as: tclug-promotions at mn-linux.org which gets treated and managed in the exact same way as the existing mailing lists. Members could then subscribe to this list on an "opt-in" basis. Researchers of unsolicited mail, such as Sk3tch, may find this useful as well. Thoughts? --Tom P.S. By the way I thought our lists were going to be archived on gmane now, but these seem out of date (no posts since 1/17)? http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.tclug However the traditional location seems to be up to date: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2005-January/thread.html