> I believe the old WW forum approach (an announcement containing some > do's and don't's, links to the Jira, Wiki, archives, etc ..) was quite > efficient and hard to ignore (some still managed, though).
Yeah, the WW forum was quite efficient for filtering out most of the noise... > Of course, > such a thing is quite hard to enforce since we're on a mailinglist, > unless we indeed were to go with a daily/weekly/.. mail. I believe the > number of daily mails would be sufficient not to generate too much > noise (and even then, maybe we could tie it to the number of topics > posted .. eg. every 50 topics). > I'm not familiar with the mailing list software that is used, but is it possible to send an auto response to the first post a user has to the mailing list (not a signup confirmation or anything like that, but as a response to their first post, with RE: <your topic> in the subject and everything...)? A regular mail would certainly be a good idea, but you still won't catch those who just sign up to get that one problem solved (URGENT PLZ). Nils-H --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
