Hi all,
I'm subscribed to wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org and it receives constant posting of low interest posts such as "This month in GLAM" or "The Signpost" stuff. This gets annoying because I expect the newsletter to announce only really big announcements that interest me or require my attention, and that appear infrequently.
There's also a risk similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf that really significant announcements will be ignored due to people getting used to not paying attention to the less significant ones.
Can someone take it to heart? If it continues, I'll have to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
This message is by far the least interesting I've seen. Since you know how to unsubscribe, why not just solve your own problem? Pete [[User:Peteforsyth@gmail]]
Hoi, Pete how do you know that Shlomi is the only one who appreciates such posts in this way? His point is more relevant than yours because he has a point that may be of relevance to many and yours is only a personal opinion and a put down to boot. Thanks, GerardM
On 13 November 2015 at 09:45, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
This message is by far the least interesting I've seen. Since you know how to unsubscribe, why not just solve your own problem? Pete [[User:Peteforsyth@gmail]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Pete how do you know that Shlomi is the only one who appreciates such posts in this way? His point is more relevant than yours because he has a point that may be of relevance to many and yours is only a personal opinion and a put down to boot.
It usually helps to phrase such emails as questions (e.g. "do other wikimediaannounce-l subscribers find newsletters relevant to this list?") instead of just assuming that everyone else shares your preferences or making passive-aggressive threats of unsubscribing.
Personally I do find the newsletters useful, and don't feel that ignoring five emails a month or setting up an email filter is an undue burden for those who don't.
That list is meant to be low traffic, not no traffic.
"A moderated list for any announcements of relevance to a large audience of Wikimedia community members, friends and interested observers."
We are a worldwide community sharing the same goals, but with widely differing interest within that. What may be interesting (or not) to you may well be very different to other people. A curated summary of the going-ons in the form of the Signpost or what's happening in the Wikimedia GLAM movement are relevant/interesting to many. If you are sure that never applies to you, pressing delete/ignore/read 5 times a month aren't that taxing. A hint, you'll probably end up with more email in this thread alone than you get in a month things you don't care about in the announce list.
KTC
On 13/11/2015 08:04, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi all,
I'm subscribed to wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org and it receives constant posting of low interest posts such as "This month in GLAM" or "The Signpost" stuff. This gets annoying because I expect the newsletter to announce only really big announcements that interest me or require my attention, and that appear infrequently.
There's also a risk similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf that really significant announcements will be ignored due to people getting used to not paying attention to the less significant ones.
Can someone take it to heart? If it continues, I'll have to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org