[CentOS-devel] getting better at user engagement / announcements

[Karanbir Singh]

On 02/10/15 08:33, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 01/10/15 21:35, john tatt wrote:
>> Hi
> 
>> Maybe you could send a mail to everyone registered in the fora ?
>> And this is also available for fora in other languages ?
> 
>> J
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Well, I'm not sure that automatically sending notifications for people
> subscribed to forum/fora would be a good idea : I like the idea that
> someone can just opt-in for such mail notification.
> OTOH, some people (like you for fr.centos.org, and thanks for that)
> can play a kind of "bridge role" between such lists and fora (where a
> post/topic can be created so that people using forum/fora can be
> aware, while still not themselves receiving mails that they don't
> subscribed to)

the newsletter sort of format might be good though, specially if we make
it easy for people to opt out of. I think quite a few forums do this
already.

Maybe worth a test.

does the software we run at centos.org support something of this nature
? specially the opt out part..

- KB

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