<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2601">Hi</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2734"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2735">May be we could use an phpBB extension like "phpBB Board Annoucements" ?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_3264"><br></div><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_3262"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2961" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2960" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2962" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_3372" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_3374" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley@ntlworld.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> The CentOS developers mailing list. <centos-devel@centos.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 2 octobre 2015 12h15<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [CentOS-devel] getting better at user engagement / announcements<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443783235568_2959" class="y_msg_container"><br>On 02/10/15 09:51, Karanbir Singh wrote:<br clear="none">> On 02/10/15 08:33, Fabian Arrotin wrote:<br clear="none">>> On 01/10/15 21:35, john tatt wrote:<br clear="none">>>> Hi<br clear="none">>>> Maybe you could send a mail to everyone registered in the fora ?<br clear="none">>>> And this is also available for fora in other languages ?<br clear="none">>>> J<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Hi John,<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Well, I'm not sure that automatically sending notifications for people<br clear="none">>> subscribed to forum/fora would be a good idea : I like the idea that<br clear="none">>> someone can just opt-in for such mail notification.<br clear="none">>> OTOH, some people (like you for fr.centos.org, and thanks for that)<br clear="none">>> can play a kind of "bridge role" between such lists and fora (where a<br clear="none">>> post/topic can be created so that people using forum/fora can be<br clear="none">>> aware, while still not themselves receiving mails that they don't<br clear="none">>> subscribed to)<br clear="none">> the newsletter sort of format might be good though, specially if we make<br clear="none">> it easy for people to opt out of. I think quite a few forums do this<br clear="none">> already.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Maybe worth a test.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> does the software we run at centos.org support something of this nature<br clear="none">> ? specially the opt out part..<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't think it's either supported nor do I think it's a good idea.<br clear="none">No-one who has signed up for the forums has explicitly signed up to<br clear="none">receive mail from us on other subjects other than password resets etc so<br clear="none">it would effectively be unsolicited SPAM. In addition the actual hit<br clear="none">rate for getting to real users will be extremely low as we currently<br clear="none">have over 66,000 users signed up but I would bet that not more than 1 in<br clear="none">10 of those are real users, the rest are spammers signed up by automated<br clear="none">bots. The back scatter from a blunderbuss approach to contacting them<br clear="none">would be enormous.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Trevor<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt5879491849" id="yqtfd27271"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">CentOS-devel mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:CentOS-devel@centos.org" href="mailto:CentOS-devel@centos.org">CentOS-devel@centos.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>