[Inpycon] Will be largely away for two days

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16 2011, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
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> > Actually, some activity in the mailing list is not a bad thing. It gives
> > a feeling we are doing something (and hopefully we *are*), and keep
> > people interested.
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> Not automated emails.
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Ah, well, didn't realize those 50+ unread emails showing from "Dhananjay
Nene" were
automated emails! I had kept them for reading and replying later :)

I agree with you.


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> People grow desensitized and don't bother reading things (filter, delete
> on arrival etc.) if there's a regular stream of mails that they can
> ignore.
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Other side of the coin - once they do that, they kind of actively
wait for the next non-automated human email, if they are interested
in the list. At least I do this on gmail consistently after purging those
regular "update" emails from banks etc.


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