Re: Empty calendars

[Benjamin Lehmann <benvlehmann gmail com>]

Hi Ken,

I think a "no events this week" message is fine. I can implement that.

The reply-to is a good question. (Note that the submission email address 
already replies to any email that it can't process, in order to give an 
error message, so it would at least be obvious to the user that they had 
reached a robot.) One option is to simply set the reply-to address to the 
listserv itself. The downside is noise from unsubscribe requests, but I 
don't think we're such a large list that this is a problem.

Best,
Ben

> On Jul 23, 2026, at 12:47, Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Ben.  If the calendar is empty, should it say something like "None
> submitted" after "Events from ... through ...."?  That might make things
> clearer to the reader.  Another possibility might be not to send out the
> calendar in this case, but I think that would leave subscribers
> wondering why they didn't get it.
> 
> Also should the calendar mailing have some invalid reply-to address to
> discourage people from replying to it?  I can see that this could go
> wrong with people replying to the mailing saying they want to
> unsubscribe or something.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                                        Ken
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