tag:dashes.com,2009:/anil//1/tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180- 2009-08-10T20:23:53Z Comments for First of the Month A Blog About Making Culture Movable Type 4.3-en tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180 2005-08-01T20:07:56Z 2005-08-12T06:50:00Z First of the Month Happy mailman-owner email day! He's the guy who just sends you a reminder, once a month, about your subscriptions. He'll even offer you some URLs... Anil http://anildash.com/ Happy mailman-owner email day! He's the guy who just sends you a reminder, once a month, about your subscriptions. He'll even offer you some URLs if you'd like to unsubscribe or manage your subscription.

]]> tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7704 Comment from Christopher Black on 2005-08-01 Christopher Black http://www.tineb.com Hee. I'm glad my coworkers and I aren't the only ones who say that once a month.

]]> 2005-08-01T20:30:18Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7705 Comment from Matt Haughey on 2005-08-01 Matt Haughey http://a.wholelottanothing.org mailman-owner says hi to me about twelve times every first morning of the month. I can't imagine what a real IT person's email inbox looks like on the first.

]]> 2005-08-01T20:50:39Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7706 Comment from Matthew Scott on 2005-08-01 Matthew Scott http://goldenspud.com/ """I can't imagine what a real IT person's email inbox looks like on the first."""

Void of mailman-owner posts, if they choose to edit their subscription options to not send reminders :)

]]> 2005-08-01T21:32:33Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7707 Comment from Kevin Burton on 2005-08-01 Kevin Burton http://www.feedblog.org Yeah. Isn't that annoying?!

I do the same thing every 1st of the month. Wake up, see all the mailman spam, then go in and wish everyone a happy mailman reminder day.

Talk about a stupid configuration default!

]]> 2005-08-01T21:39:42Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7708 Comment from Yoz on 2005-08-01 Yoz http://cheerleader.yoz.com/ As I once wrote elsewhere:

Let's hear it for pinch-punch-first-of-the-month, the grand old tradition where Mailman servers all over the world unite to utterly piss off their users in unison twelve times a year. "HELLO! WE'RE ALL TICKETY-BOO! HOW'RE YOU?"

I have never, ever understood the point of using my main notification system purely to notify me that I both have been and will continue to be receiving notifications in that notification system. AGAIN.

]]> 2005-08-01T22:03:40Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7709 Comment from yellowdesk on 2005-08-02 yellowdesk
It's really not that hard to overide the default upon signing up. Or any other time. You can do it, I know you can.

]]> 2005-08-02T11:31:11Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7710 Comment from Kenn Christ on 2005-08-02 Kenn Christ http://www.inmostlight.org/ He'll even send you your passwords in clear text, which the Mailman folks, without a hint of irony, call a "security feature".

]]> 2005-08-02T12:04:27Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7715 Comment from Jacques Marneweck on 2005-08-02 Jacques Marneweck http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/ Hi Anil,

One of the nicer things with those monthly reminders is that it reminds you that you subscribed to the particular mailing lists at some time in the past, even if there is no traffic on the list.

]]> 2005-08-02T13:42:28Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2180-comment:7739 Comment from Al on 2005-08-04 Al How the bobbins is that useful Jacques?

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