Results of my redoing my tests following Mark’s comments.
A) Thoughts before the tests B) The tests C) Summary
A) Thoughts before summarizing tests.
I had originally thought of making archives only for subscribers to give them the benefit of posting from the archives directly and being able to find stuff more like a forum (email is always hard to follow).
But in retrospect it seems people can get an idea what the list is about from free access. So that is now what I have.
On the other hand, it is a bit confusing that a non member can post from the archives without realizing that they need to register, with my settings I can moderate and decide if I want to add him or her to the list based on whether that is spam or not. So ok.
B) THE TESTS I was testing too many variables so, to simplify things, I made my settings as follows
Subscription—> Confirm
Message Acceptance—> Default processing (so only members may post)
Testing Procesure I added people three ways—> To do that I created 3 unique addresses to see if they can send and receive by email.
3a) subscribe without creating an account—from here (bottom) https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/postorius/lists/discuss.list.tokyoprogress... <https://list.tokyoprogressive.org/postorius/lists/discuss.list.tokyoprogressive.org/> Comment: This is fastest. User can immediately send and receive.
3b) Subscription / Unsubscription from same page, navigate to Login and again navigate to signup Comment 1: Confusing because even after creating an account, they are not subscribed to the list. Maybe it makes sense if a person has many lists, but I only have this one. It does not say clearly that one has to subscribe after creating an account.
Comment 2: The other thing is that it does not show my domain but that of mailman3.emwd.com <http://mailman3.emwd.com/>.
3c) Mass Subscribe by me. Which is what I intend for my 600 users from another list company. Comment This worked fine.
C) Summary
I have been thinking of having an account as a good way to get users used to using the archives as a way to confirm current and past topics (as opposed to keeping track by email. But it seems I need to tell them to BOTH subscribe AND create an account. Am I thinking about it the wrong way?
When a person wants to unsubscribe, they go to discuss-request@list.tokyoprogressive.org <mailto:discuss-request@list.tokyoprogressive.org> with subject bline help.
What comes back is the below.
a) Isn’t there a better way to unsubscribe by email?
b) And how about a way to remove their account itself?
The results of your email command are provided below.
Original message details: From: Paul Subscribe <tokyosubscribe@icloud.com <mailto:tokyosubscribe@icloud.com>> Subject: help Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 01:33:43 -0000 Message-ID: <e46a43ec-e7dd-4846-94b1-d899ea626f53@me.com <mailto:e46a43ec-e7dd-4846-94b1-d899ea626f53@me.com>>
Results: Ignoring non-text/plain MIME parts confirm - Confirm a subscription request. echo - Echo back your arguments. end - Stop processing commands. help - Get help about available email commands. join - Join this mailing list. leave - Leave this mailing list. stop - An alias for 'end’.
Thanks!!!!