Hi :) re: top vs bottom posting
Many people using this mailing list are likely to be unfamiliar with various notions that are in common usage on other mailing lists. Hopefully this mailing list responds to people in ways they are familiar with but at the same time prepares them for other possibilities. Many office workers have no idea that bottom posting sometimes happens until after they have been (possibly) rudely "told off" on some other mailing list. On this list people use all 3 methods so that new users become aware that top-posters are often responding to something that was bottom posted. So we do it gently. Oddly it seems that most other mailing lists for LibreOffice seem to use top-posting almost exclusively whereas many other Open Source projects bottom-post. LibreOffice is one of the gateway projects into the world of Open Source so it makes sense to guide people gently. re: "Reply to all" Again it's something that almost all new users are unlikely to have used before. Quite a few of us keep grumbling about it but in many cases that is more about making people aware of something that other mailing-lists take for granted. It makes people more comfortable about admitting to making mistakes when they realise that many others do too, especially when it's obviously quite sophisticated users that also make the same blunder. Some of us keep making the same blunder or get annoyed by others doing things differently. Hopefully most of us have learned to be a bit more forgiving of ourselves and of others. Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2014 13:41, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi James, > > James E Lang wrote on 2014-01-31 21:12: > > >> I also think most mailing lists encourage replies to the list by inserting >> a "Reply-To" header designating the list as the preferred reply address. >> This lets all on the list to learn from most responses. It also guides >> people on the list regarding which queries still need a response. > > > we had quite a large discussion on that topic a while ago, with advantages > and disadvantages for both settings (so called "reply-to mangling"). We have > in the end agreed to use the setting as it is now. > > Sorry if that causes inconveniences for you, but there's close to little we > can do to make everyone happy. > > Florian > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted