Re: [boost] A More Welcoming Community

I would say that would just spam the mailing list, especially around the time of GSoC with so many new students joining the mailing list. Better to send new joiner private messages with all kinds of helpful links and rules etc(this will reduce beginners traffic too)... some people might just be interested in observing the development. On the other hand people who want to do something can always type a mail themselves. To me as a new joiner it seems more welcoming to receive welcome message than publishing welcome message to mailing list.