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Subject: Re: Surveying list users.
From: Beartooth <karhunhammas @ Lserv . com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:56:52 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw @ python . org>
Cc: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>,list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <15662.61454.441793.135459@anthem.wooz.org>
Reply-to: KHLsv <karhunhammas @ Lserv . com>

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>     CVR> 2) functionality issues: html, MIME, reply-to, subject flags,
>     CVR> etc.
>
> digests vs. regular delivery, but also remember that users
> probably prefer different message packaging for different lists.

	Don't forget the index option on listserv! It makes one of
my subscriptions feasible -- I'd never make it through the volume
getting to what I want in a digest. I just wish I could set my
Mailman subscriptions that way!

> You probably don't need to know exactly which lists they're on,
> but some more anonymous metrics like: number of lists you're on,
> do they tend towards the technical or the social/recreational,
> etc.

	And maybe which gatewayed ones they follow on usenet
instead of by digest or index. But that's getting esoteric to try
to ask ....
-- 
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
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