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Conversant mailing list interface

A new Conversant feature I worked on has been rolled out — the Mailing list interface. Conversant’s email integration is one of it’s most compelling features, but until now it lacked a good easy to use central list manager, to let admins see who is subscribed and change member email settings. I know I’ll be using it a lot.

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8 Responses to “Conversant mailing list interface”

  1. Sean McMains Says:
    January 27th, 2003 at 9:54 am

    This rules, Greg. I tried it out yesterday, and it’s wonderful. It’s good to see some of Conversant’s awe-inspiring muscle becoming a bit more accessible. Thanks for your efforts.

    Sean

  2. Jim Roepcke Says:
    January 27th, 2003 at 11:35 pm

    On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:12 AM, Greg Pierce wrote:

    > Conversant’s email integration is one of it’s most compelling
    > features, but until now it lacked a good easy to use central list
    > manager, to let admins see who is subscribed and change member email
    > settings. I know I’ll be using it a lot.

    Thanks Greg! I was someone disappointed to see only 15 people other
    than myself subscribed. The good news is a lot of them use the list in
    both directions, and there are people who contribute to the discussion
    who aren’t on the list, but far fewer than 5% of the members are
    subscribed. Bummer.

    Jim

  3. Seth Dillingham Says:
    January 28th, 2003 at 7:52 am

    On 1/27/2003, Jim Roepcke said:

    >Thanks Greg! I was someone disappointed to see only 15 people other
    >than myself subscribed. The good news is a lot of them use the list in
    >both directions, and there are people who contribute to the discussion
    >who aren’t on the list, but far fewer than 5% of the members are
    >subscribed. Bummer.

    Why is that a bummer?

  4. Jim Roepcke Says:
    January 29th, 2003 at 12:53 am

    On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 05:52 AM, Seth Dillingham wrote:

    > On 1/27/2003, Jim Roepcke said:
    >
    >> Thanks Greg! I was someone disappointed to see only 15 people other
    >> than myself subscribed. The good news is a lot of them use the list
    >> in
    >> both directions, and there are people who contribute to the discussion
    >> who aren’t on the list, but far fewer than 5% of the members are
    >> subscribed. Bummer.
    >
    > Why is that a bummer?

    Because it means that only a couple of people have subscribed since the
    last time i asked you how many were subscribed, and that was so long
    ago I can’t even remember when it was.

    Jim

  5. Greg Pierce Says:
    January 29th, 2003 at 8:22 am

    On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:53:04 -0600, Jim Roepcke wrote:
    >Because it means that only a couple of people have subscribed since the
    >last time i asked you how many were subscribed, and that was so long
    >ago I can’t even remember when it was.

    You know…looking at your site, that’s not terribly surprising. You have a “signup” and “logon” link on the home page — but no links or information indicating that an email subscription is available. Most people would not assume that or try to figure it out.

    g.

  6. Greg Pierce Says:
    January 29th, 2003 at 8:23 am

    On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:22:06 -0600, Greg Pierce wrote:
    >You have a
    >”signup” and “logon” link on the home page — but no links or information
    >indicating that an email subscription is available.

    Oops…I lied, you do…I just didn’t see it at first.

    g.

  7. Seth Dillingham Says:
    January 29th, 2003 at 8:35 am

    On 1/29/2003, Greg Pierce said:

    >Oops…I lied, you do…I just didn’t see it at first.

    You didn’t see it, and were looking for it. That’s significant.

    Seth

  8. Greg Pierce Says:
    January 29th, 2003 at 8:38 am

    On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:35:04 -0600, Seth Dillingham wrote:
    >You didn’t see it, and were looking for it. That’s significant.

    Right. It should be with all membership related links in one place if you want people to find it.

    g.

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